Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

First japanese talking movie.