Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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

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

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

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....

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...

Judo movie.

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....

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A youth film set in a high school.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

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

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

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...

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