Chikage Awashima Movies

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

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

1962 Japanese movie

1953 Japanese movie

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

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...

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

The 11th "Ekimae" feature.

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

Late entry "Ekimae" feature, about the hunt for lost treasure.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.