Chōko Iida Movies

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

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

1962 Japanese movie

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

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 melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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

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...

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

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

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

1961 Japanese movie

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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