Chōko Iida Movies

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

A yakuza returning from an island journey takes a stranger’s young child under his wing as he travels, gives up the woman he loves to his...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

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

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Film by Buichi Saitô

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

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

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

1950 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Japanese film from 1934.