Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

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

Reiko Nishida, though she had both parents, felt lonely because she couldn’t fit in with the cold atmosphere at home. A student at Wakaba...

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 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.

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.

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

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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’...

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...

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

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 youth film set in a high school.

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