Chieko Nakakita Movies

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.

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

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.