Chōko Iida Movies

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

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

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

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.

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

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...