Chieko Higashiyama Movies

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Japanese drama.

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

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

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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

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...

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.