Chōko Iida Movies

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

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

Period film from 1934.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her...

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way home. So, the brother, who is still young, will live...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

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

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a...

A 1937 Japanese film.