Chōko Iida Movies

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

1961 Japanese movie

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...

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

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

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

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

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

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

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

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

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

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.