Chōko Iida Movies

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...

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...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

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

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

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...

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

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...

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.

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

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

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