Chieko Baisho Movies

A port town in the Hokuriku region, around the time the Meiji era was drawing to a close. Here, there was a strange custom dating back many years:...

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...

A coming-of-age drama with an original screenplay by Yoshiro Tomita and directed by Kinya Sakai.

A young surgeon and a nurse working at a hospital fall in love, but numerous trials stand in their way.

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

1962 Japanese movie

Yuri, a high school teacher, lives her busy days carrying a sacred "vow" in her heart: to fulfill the dream of the one she loved, Akira, who aspired...

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...