Chieko Higashiyama Movies

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

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...

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the...

Japanese drama.

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries...

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

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

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

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

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...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...