Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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...

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

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

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

1956 Daiei movie

Japanese drama.