Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...

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...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

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

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

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

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

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...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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 novel by Kan Shimozawa.

1958 Japanese movie

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

Japanese mystery thriller.