Chieko Higashiyama Movies

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

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...

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

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...

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of...

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

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...

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually...

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...

1958 Japanese movie

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

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

Japanese mystery thriller.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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

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