Chōko Iida Movies

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

"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...

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

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...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1962 Japanese movie

Film by Buichi Saitô

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Japanese film from 1934.

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.

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...

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...

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

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...