Keiko Awaji Movies

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

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

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu and the detective who rides with him to arrest...

The 9th "Ekimae" feature.

After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new...

1957 Japanese movie.

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...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

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

Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide,...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

A contemporary comedy.