Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

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

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of...

As an orphan, Yamauchi Fumiko was taken in by the politician Kawabe Sotaro and raised by him. Perhaps because of their similar circumstances, she...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges,...

A man driven mad amid the ravages of war, a woman who never found true love, and an innocent young man—all drawn once again to the military...

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

Japanese drama.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A youth film set in a high school.

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...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

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