Search results for "Chieko Nakakita"
Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night
IMDb: 7.3
92

In the late 1950’s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one…

Genre: Drama
Desperado Outpost

Desperado Outpost

Desperado Outpost
IMDb: 6.8
109

When Sergeant Okubo’s brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother’s killer.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Sudden Rain

Sudden Rain

Sudden Rain
IMDb: 7.3
91

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mother

Mother

Mother
IMDb: 7.6
98

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama
The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel
IMDb: 7.4
95

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father’s (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood…

Genre: Drama
Lightning

Lightning

Lightning
IMDb: 7.5
87

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with…

Genre: Drama
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
IMDb: 8.1
111

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well…

Genre: Drama
Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain
IMDb: 7.8
96

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

Genre: Drama
Flowing

Flowing

Flowing
IMDb: 7.6
117

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 mothers trade in the late days…

Genre: Drama
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel
IMDb: 7.7
98

The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident…

Genre: Drama
Wife

Wife

Wife
IMDb: 6.9
96

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband’s lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can’t treat herself and the husband finds the…

Genre: Drama
Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds
IMDb: 7.7
123

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn’t and after the…

Genre: Drama, Romance