Chōko Iida Movies

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

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

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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

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

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

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

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

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

1958 Japanese movie

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Young Guy graduates from University.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.