Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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.

Japanese drama.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

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

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

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

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

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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