Chieko Nakakita Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

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 young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

1964 Japanese movie

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

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

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

1962 Japanese movie

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...