Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...

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...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

1963 Japanese movie

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

A youth film set in a high school.

Japanese drama.

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

1956 Daiei movie

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.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

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

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.