Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

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.

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

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.

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

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...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...