Chieko Nakakita Movies

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

1962 Japanese movie

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...