Chōko Iida Movies

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

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...

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Japanese drama film.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

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.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

Dotanba - Last Minute

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.