Chieko Naniwa Movies

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

After killing a man who owed him neither a debt of gratitude nor a grudge, Tokijiro decides to leave the yakuza life behind in accordance with the...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own...

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...

A broke romantic and a practical young woman are pulled apart by money, matchmaking, and meddling families — only to find their way back to...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Komichi (Chieko Baisho), a maiko in Gion, reunites with her elementary school classmate Takao Segawa (Yukio Hashi) for the first time in eight years,...

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.