Chōko Iida Movies

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

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

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

Japanese drama film.

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

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

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