Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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

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...

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

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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

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....

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 family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

The Siege of Osaka

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...

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...