Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A man driven mad amid the ravages of war, a woman who never found true love, and an innocent young man—all drawn once again to the military...

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

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

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually...

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...

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

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

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...

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

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

1956 Daiei movie

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...