Chōko Iida Movies

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

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

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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

A 1937 Japanese film.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

Period film from 1934.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

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...

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...