Chieko Higashiyama Movies

  • 1953
    Tokyo Story

    Tokyo Story

    Tokyo Story

    8.21953HD

    The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

    Tokyo Story
  • 1951
    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    71951HD

    A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the...

    The Idiot
  • 1951
    Early Summer

    Early Summer

    Early Summer

    7.81951HD

    A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

    Early Summer
  • 1952
    Carmen's Innocent Love

    Carmen's Innocent Love

    Carmen's Innocent Love

    5.1151952HD

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

    Carmen's Innocent Love
  • 1962
    Love School

    Love School

    Love School

    01962HD

    Love School
  • 1959
    The Most Valuable Wife

    The Most Valuable Wife

    The Most Valuable Wife

    7.51959HD

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

    The Most Valuable Wife
  • 1958
    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    61958HD

    Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

    The Loyal 47 Ronin
  • 1948
    Apostasy

    Apostasy

    Apostasy

    5.41948HD

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

    Apostasy
  • 1957
    The Blue Sky Maiden

    The Blue Sky Maiden

    The Blue Sky Maiden

    6.81957HD

    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...

    The Blue Sky Maiden
  • 1959
    The Snow Flurry

    The Snow Flurry

    The Snow Flurry

    6.71959HD

    After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

    The Snow Flurry
  • 1953
    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart

    6.31953HD

    A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

    Sincere Heart
  • 1954
    The Garden of Women

    The Garden of Women

    The Garden of Women

    6.61954HD

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

    The Garden of Women
  • 1962
    This Year's Love

    This Year's Love

    This Year's Love

    6.31962HD

    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....

    This Year's Love
  • 1971
    Love and Death

    Love and Death

    Love and Death

    01971HD

    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...

    Love and Death
  • 1960
    The Wandering Princess

    The Wandering Princess

    The Wandering Princess

    6.71960HD

    Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love...

    The Wandering Princess
  • 1955
    Ai Sureba Koso

    Ai Sureba Koso

    Ai Sureba Koso

    01955HD

    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...

    Ai Sureba Koso
  • 1966
    The Kii River

    The Kii River

    The Kii River

    81966HD

    Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

    The Kii River
  • 1967
    Shogun and His Mistress 2

    Shogun and His Mistress 2

    Shogun and His Mistress 2

    31967HD

    In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

    Shogun and His Mistress 2
  • 1947
    Marriage

    Marriage

    Marriage

    71947HD

    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.

    Marriage
  • 1948
    The Portrait

    The Portrait

    The Portrait

    61948HD

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

    The Portrait