Chōko Iida Movies

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

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

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

1950 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

1962 Japanese movie

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Young Guy graduates from University.

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

1961 Japanese movie

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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...

When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best...

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

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