Chieko Nakakita Movies

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

1945 Japanese movie