Chieko Naniwa Movies

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a...

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

An Ishiro Honda film.

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

Sequel to the 1955 movie.

1961 Japanese movie

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.