Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

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

Japanese drama.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

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

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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 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.

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually...

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...

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