Movies: Chieko Higashiyama

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a ch...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister....

Japanese drama....

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 circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps,...

Japanese mystery thriller....

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The Siege of Osaka...

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

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

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

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era....

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

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa....

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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 charge, but fails. His daughter Naeko (Takamine) finds out and takes on the role herself. This is a lov...

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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 and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) ...