Keiko Awaji Movies

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

1962 Japanese movie

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro.

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

1960 Japanese movie

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

1962 Japanese movie

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

1962 Japanese movie

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...