Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

The Siege of Osaka

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

1958 Japanese movie

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

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

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...

1963 Japanese movie

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

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

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...

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away....

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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 case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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.