Chōko Iida Movies

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

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

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

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

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

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...

Japanese war movie.

A 1937 Japanese film.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.