Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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....

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

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...

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

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...

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

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

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.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

The Siege of Osaka

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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

First japanese talking movie.