Chieko Nakakita Movies

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

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

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...

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

1945 Japanese movie

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...

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...

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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.

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series