Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

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...

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....

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

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

1958 Japanese movie

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...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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

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...

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...

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.

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.