Chieko Higashiyama Movies

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Japanese mystery thriller.

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

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

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...

The Siege of Osaka

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

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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...

Japanese drama.

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

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...

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

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...