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.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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 family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

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...

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

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

The Siege of Osaka