Chieko Nakakita Movies

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (Ikebe) whom he blames for the suicide of his...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.