Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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...

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’...

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....

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

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

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

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

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

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

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...

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...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

1958 Japanese movie

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...