Chōko Iida Movies

  • 1948
    Drunken Angel

    Drunken Angel

    Drunken Angel

    7.6061948HD

    In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

    Drunken Angel
  • 1949
    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    7.5481949HD

    A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

    Stray Dog
  • 1962
    A Wanderer's Notebook

    A Wanderer's Notebook

    A Wanderer's Notebook

    7.21962HD

    Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

    A Wanderer's Notebook
  • 1934
    A Story of Floating Weeds

    A Story of Floating Weeds

    A Story of Floating Weeds

    7.181934HD

    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 Story of Floating Weeds
  • 1941
    Flower

    Flower

    Flower

    01941HD

    Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

    Flower
  • 1955
    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman

    7.61955HD

    Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

    Forever a Woman
  • 1947
    Record of a Tenement Gentleman

    Record of a Tenement Gentleman

    Record of a Tenement Gentleman

    7.1931947HD

    An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

    Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  • 1936
    The Only Son

    The Only Son

    The Only Son

    7.3941936HD

    A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...

    The Only Son
  • 1958
    The Rickshaw Man

    The Rickshaw Man

    The Rickshaw Man

    7.21958HD

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

    The Rickshaw Man
  • 1941
    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    6.8751941HD

    After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
  • 1946
    Lord for a Night

    Lord for a Night

    Lord for a Night

    81946HD

    In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

    Lord for a Night
  • 1955
    All is Well

    All is Well

    All is Well

    01955HD

    All is Well
  • 1952
    Tokyo Sweetheart

    Tokyo Sweetheart

    Tokyo Sweetheart

    7.61952HD

    Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

    Tokyo Sweetheart
  • 1959
    Fox and Raccoon

    Fox and Raccoon

    Fox and Raccoon

    01959HD

    A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

    Fox and Raccoon
  • 1933
    Apart from You

    Apart from You

    Apart from You

    6.9761933HD

    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...

    Apart from You
  • 1958
    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    7.51958HD

    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...

    Summer Clouds
  • 1962
    Shin kitsune to tanuki

    Shin kitsune to tanuki

    Shin kitsune to tanuki

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie

    Shin kitsune to tanuki
  • 1956
    Dotanba

    Dotanba

    Dotanba

    61956HD

    Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

    Dotanba
  • 1958
    Detective Duel

    Detective Duel

    Detective Duel

    61958HD

    A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

    Detective Duel
  • 1931
    Tokyo Chorus

    Tokyo Chorus

    Tokyo Chorus

    6.71931HD

    In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

    Tokyo Chorus