Chieko Higashiyama Movies

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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

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 story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

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...

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

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

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,...

Japanese drama.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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