Chōko Iida Movies

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

1961 Japanese movie

1958 Japanese movie

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Dotanba - Last Minute

Young Guy graduates from University.

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...