Chōko Iida Movies

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

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...

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

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...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...