Chikage Awashima Movies

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

The 9th "Ekimae" feature.

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Sequel to the 1955 movie.

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

A contemporary comedy.

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

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...

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.