Chikage Awashima Movies

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

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

A contemporary comedy.

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

The 10th "Ekimae" feature.

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

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 11th "Ekimae" feature.

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

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