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:...

1966 Japanese movie

Soichiro Ishizuka, the head of a prestigious Tokyo textile company, lives a comfortable life with his wife and three daughters. Their current family...

A light-hearted coming-of-age drama directed by Tsuneo Tabata, with the original story and screenplay by Masashige Narusawa.

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...

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

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...

A musical romance.

1964 Japanese movie

This special performance was held to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the release of the film Tora-San. The event was a must-see for fans and...

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.

The Nagasaki flagship store of a long-established castella bakery versus its Tokyo branch. Amid a sudden clash between the old and the new, a young...

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

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...

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

Japanese comedy film.

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