Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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.

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

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...

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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

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....

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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 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...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

The Siege of Osaka

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

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...