Chieko Baisho Movies

1962 Japanese movie

The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of...

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

1962 Japanese movie

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

1962 Japanese movie

One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa....

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's.

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Japanese comedy film.

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...

1972 Japanese movie

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.