Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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...

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

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.

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...

Japanese drama.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.