Chōko Iida Movies

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

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

A Ginza pickpocket, wanting to show his mother his filial piety, disguises himself as an office worker and takes her sightseeing in Tokyo, with the...

Five regulars at “Maxwell,” a cabaret tucked away in the back streets of Ginza—including Chida and Numai—are once again...

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

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

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Period film from 1934.

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

1961 Japanese movie

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.