Chōko Iida Movies

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

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

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

College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuichi has his...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

1958 Japanese movie

Japanese film from 1929.

1962 Japanese movie

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

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

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.