Chieko Seki Movies

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

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

1958 Mito Kumon movie

1950s Japanese comedy.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

1957 Japanese movie

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the...

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...