Movies: Chieko Higashiyama

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar....

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 past, she must decide whether to run or face it—with help from a kind local officer....

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 and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) ...

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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 Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, w...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming...

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident....

1958 Japanese movie...

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era....

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

The Siege of Osaka...

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....

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy....

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa....

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode that unfolds in a doctorless village....

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A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it....

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

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution m...