Chōko Iida Movies

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Japanese film from 1934.

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi,...

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.