Chōko Iida Movies

Japanese film from 1934.

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A 1937 Japanese film.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection...

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

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...

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

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...

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi,...

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

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

Period film from 1934.

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.