Chōko Iida Movies

Young Guy graduates from University.

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

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...

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

Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection...

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

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.

Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There he meets his beautiful daughter (Mie...

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...