Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

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....

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

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

Japanese mystery thriller.

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...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

1963 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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