Chōko Iida Movies

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

Japanese drama film.

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

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 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...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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

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

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

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

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...

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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

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...

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

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

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...

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