Chōko Iida Movies

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

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...

1950 Japanese movie

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

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...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Young Guy graduates from University.

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...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...