Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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...

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

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

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...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

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

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

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.

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

The Siege of Osaka

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

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