Chieko Seki Movies

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

1950s Japanese comedy.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

Japanese comedy film.

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent...

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...