Chōko Iida Movies

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

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

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

Japanese Warmovie

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

1950 Japanese movie

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa

Young Guy graduates from University.

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

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

1962 Japanese movie