Chōko Iida Movies

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

1958 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Japanese drama film.

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.