Chōko Iida Movies

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

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

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

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

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

Japanese Warmovie

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

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

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...