Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be...

Pu Zhe, younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko, daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between...

Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges,...

A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.

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...

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 young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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...

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.

Reiko Nishida, though she had both parents, felt lonely because she couldn’t fit in with the cold atmosphere at home. A student at Wakaba...

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

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

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

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

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

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