Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

1963 Japanese movie

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

The Siege of Osaka

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

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

Japanese mystery thriller.

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

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

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.

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’...

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away....

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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