Chōko Iida Movies

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

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

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...

When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best...

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

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.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...