Chieko Nakakita Movies

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

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

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...

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

1962 Japanese movie

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

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...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

1962 Japanese movie

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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

Keiichi, a man on the run after being implicated in a detective’s death, struggles to evade the police. As the investigation intensifies,...

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...