Chikage Awashima Movies

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story...

Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. military training grounds. One of them, Zen, is their...

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa, embarks on a marathon across Japan.

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Ensemble comedy.

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

1953 Japanese movie

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

Japanese comedy film.