Chieko Naniwa Movies

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...

A romance between a female student and a young professor, where friendship, temptation, and jealousy intertwine.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...

1960 Japanese movie

Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes...

In the late afternoon in Kyoto’s Ponto-chō, as Tsuruko, a maiko who had just left Tsurunoya, was crossing a small bridge over the Takase...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.