Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

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...

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

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

The Siege of Osaka

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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