Chieko Naniwa Movies

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

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

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

1955 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

1961 Japanese movie

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again...

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

Japanese comedy film.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.