Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

1956 Daiei movie

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

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...

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...

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

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 family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...