Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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’...

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...

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

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

1958 Japanese movie

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.

Japanese mystery thriller.

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

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.

Japanese drama.