Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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...

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’...

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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

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.

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...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

1963 Japanese movie

First japanese talking movie.

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....