Chikage Awashima Movies

Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!

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...

In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, and Midori. According to Midori, Koyasu was a...

Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her...

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

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

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

1962 Japanese movie

#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...

Japanese comedy film.

1961 film based on Chiyoko Matsuo's bestseller.

Akiko divorces her husband Fujikawa due to his infidelity, and when she returns to her parents' home, she finds that her family's toy factory is in...

Ensemble comedy.

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of...