Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

1958 Japanese movie

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

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.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

1963 Japanese movie

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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

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.

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...

First japanese talking movie.