Chōko Iida Movies

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

1950 Japanese movie

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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

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...

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

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

When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the...

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

Japanese comedy film.

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...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Film by Buichi Saitô

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...