Chōei Takahashi Movies

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon...

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's...

Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight...

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public...

#15 in the series, after "Ginjiro vs. The Evil Lawyer."

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy...

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned...

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.

A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.

Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area...

A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it...