Chōko Iida Movies

1961 Japanese movie

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

Japanese drama film.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

1962 Japanese movie

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

1962 Japanese movie

1950 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...