Chōko Iida Movies

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

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

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

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...

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

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

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

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...

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 1937 Japanese film.

Japanese film from 1929.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...

Period film from 1934.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Japanese film from 1925.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

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...

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

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