Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Japanese drama.

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

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

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...

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of...

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

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

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

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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

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

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...

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

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

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

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...