Chōko Iida Movies

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series

Japanese drama film.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

Japanese comedy film.

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

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Japanese Warmovie

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...