Chōko Iida Movies

1958 Japanese movie

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

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

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...

Film by Buichi Saitô

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

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...

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...

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.