Chōko Iida Movies

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

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

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

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

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

1950 Japanese movie

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1961 Japanese movie

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

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

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.