List of the best Etsuko Ichihara movies: Black Rain(1988), Sweet Bean(2015), The Face of Another(1966), The Eel(1997) ... ...
Drama
1988
122 Minutes
Shigeko Shizuma
Yoshiko Tanaka Kazuo Kitamura Etsuko Ichihara Shôichi Ozawa Norihei Miki Keisuke Ishida
young woman uncle aunt poor person survivor bleak touching brutal emotional hiroshima, japan village family home city hiroshima bombing radiation illness social standing marriage family underdog
Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Comedy, Drama
Japan|France|Germany
2015
113 Minutes
Yoshiko
Kirin Kiki Masatoshi Nagase Kyara Uchida Miyoko Asada Etsuko Ichihara Miki Mizuno Taiga Miu Takeuchi Wakato Kanematsu
business owner old woman friend customer dreamy calm engaging charming heartwarming uplifting japan kitchen business cooking success friendship rise underdog 2010s
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Drama
Japan
1966
124 Minutes
Apartment caretaker's daughter
Tatsuya Nakadai Miki Irie Mikijir? Hira Kyôko Kishida Eiji Okada Machiko Ky? Minoru Chiaki Robert Dunham Etsuko Ichihara Beverly Maeda Eiko Muramatsu
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Drama
Japan
1997
116 Minutes
Fumie Hattori
Koji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Fujio Tsuneta Mitsuko Baishô Akira Emoto Shô Aikawa Ken Kobayashi Sabu Kawara Etsuko Ichihara Tomorowo Taguchi
barber assistant priest friend wife emotional moving small town river family home barbershop redemption infidelity guilt murder love transformation 1990s
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.