Chōko Iida Movies

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

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

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...

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes...

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

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.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

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

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

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...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

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

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

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

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...