Chieko Nakakita Movies

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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.

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child....

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...

1945 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

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

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a...

1961 Japanese movie