Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually...

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...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

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

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

1963 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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...

Judo movie.