Chieko Higashiyama Movies

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

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...

Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges,...

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

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...

The Siege of Osaka

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.

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’...

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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 family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

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

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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