Chieko Nakakita Movies

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...

1945 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child....

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...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...