Chieko Higashiyama

Sweet Secret (1971)

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. ...

Love and Death (1971)

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 circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they ...

Maboroshi no Satsui (1971)

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel. ...

The Gentle Japanese (1971)

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

Shogun and His Mistress 2 (1967)

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The s ...

The Kii River (1966)

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform. ...

The Radish and the Carrot (1965)

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. ...

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple (1964)

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treac ...

Sing, Young People! (1963)

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 Woman's Life (1962)

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Ma ...

Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962)

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 rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, fl ...

Mount Hakone (1962)

Japanese drama. ...

Love School (1962)

This Year's Love (1962)

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. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi. ...

Nippon no obaachan (1962)

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 escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With n ...

Shisha to no kekkon (1960)

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

The Wandering Princess (1960)

Pu Zhe, younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko, daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war. ...

Spring Dreams (1960)

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 friends. ...

When a Woman Loves (1960)

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

The Sky Is Mine (1959)

The Most Valuable Wife (1959)

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry K ...

The Snow Flurry (1959)

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

Hana no yukyo-den (1958)

1958 Japanese movie ...

The Nun (1958)

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)

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 target of a merciless revenge. ...

The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)

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 is not who she thought she was. ...

Itohan Monogatari (1957)

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

Virtue in Spades (1956)

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa. ...

Ai to chie no wa (1956)

The Doctor (1955)

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. ...

If Indeed One Loves (1955)

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who bears the unbearable burden of caring for her family. Tomiko's father has been unable to find work for a lon ...

The Maid's Kid (1955)

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life. ...

Farewell Song (1955)

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister. ...

Women's House (1954)

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woma ...

The Princess Sen (1954)

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a rival force led by her grandfather. ...

The Garden of Women (1954)

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

A Samurai's Love (1954)

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

Tokyo Story (1953)

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 son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their ag ...

Shishun no izumi (1953)

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For the young woman Moyoko and the young man Tokizo, it is more fun than work. Both are young, cheerful, exci ...

An Heir's Place (1953)

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, which w ...

Aiyoku no sabaki (1953)

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 more wo ...

Yassamossa (1953)

Sincere Heart (1953)

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

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido (1953)

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure. ...

Carmen's Innocent Love (1952)

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

Sisters of Nishijin (1952)

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy. ...

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki (1952)

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. ...

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)

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

Early Summer (1951)

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Nori ...

Swords and Brocade (1951)

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers. ...

Ah, Youth (1951)

Aa seishun 1951 ...

The Tale of Genji (1951)

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 heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused. ...

The Idiot (1951)

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda's saintly compassion exposes ever ...

The Woman’s Reflective Pool (1951)

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in charge, but fails. His daughter Naeko (Takamine) finds out and takes on the role herself. This is a love roma ...

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom (1950)

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil (1950)

The Angry Street (1950)

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with thre ...

I Saw a Phantom Fish (1950)

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

Four Seasons of Women (1950)

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda ...

Spring Snow (1950)

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. ...

Broken Drum (1949)

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

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain (1949)

Late Night Confession (1949)

Japanese mystery thriller. ...

Ningen moyo (1949)

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president. ...

Here's to the Young Lady (1949)

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

Apostasy (1948)

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

The Portrait (1948)

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

The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947)

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent. ...

Chikagai nijuyojikan (1947)

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai ...

Marriage (1947)

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 Girl I Loved (1946)

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival. ...

Battle Troop (1944)

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and ...

Wakaki sugata (1943)

Port of Flowers (1943)

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' plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita's directorial debut is a breez ...

The Siege of Osaka (1937)

The Siege of Osaka ...

Rikugun Daikoshin (1932)