Chōko Iida Movies

A 1937 Japanese film.

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...

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

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...

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

Period film from 1934.

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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