Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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...

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...

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be...

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

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

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.

Japanese drama.

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

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 postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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

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

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

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