Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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...

1958 Japanese movie

Judo movie.

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

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

As an orphan, Yamauchi Fumiko was taken in by the politician Kawabe Sotaro and raised by him. Perhaps because of their similar circumstances, she...

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

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

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...

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

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

1963 Japanese movie

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.