Chōko Iida Movies

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.

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

1962 Japanese movie

Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series

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

Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There he meets his beautiful daughter (Mie...

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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...

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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...

Young Guy graduates from University.

Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.