Chōko Iida Movies

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...

1958 Japanese movie

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

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

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

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...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

1962 Japanese movie

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

1958 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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1961 Japanese movie

A 1937 Japanese film.