Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

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.

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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 Shôji Yuki novel.

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Japanese mystery thriller.

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....

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

1963 Japanese movie

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

A youth film set in a high school.