Chieko Higashiyama Movies

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

1958 Japanese movie

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...