Chieko Naniwa Movies

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

A child who was taken in and raised by a woman from a once-impoverished traveling theater troupe grows up to be a beautiful young woman and performs...

1961 Japanese movie

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...

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 group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old...

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

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

1961 Japanese movie

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

1962 Japanese movie

Period romantic drama.

A broke romantic and a practical young woman are pulled apart by money, matchmaking, and meddling families — only to find their way back to...