Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

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...

Japanese drama.

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

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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...

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

1956 Daiei movie

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.

A man driven mad amid the ravages of war, a woman who never found true love, and an innocent young man—all drawn once again to the military...

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.

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...

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