Chieko Nakakita Movies

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

1961 Japanese movie

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

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...

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

1962 Japanese movie

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

1962 Japanese movie

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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

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...

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...

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...