Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Reiko Nishida, though she had both parents, felt lonely because she couldn’t fit in with the cold atmosphere at home. A student at Wakaba...

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

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,...

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

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

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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.

1963 Japanese movie

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

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