Chōko Iida Movies

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.

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...

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

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...

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

1962 Japanese movie

Film by Buichi Saitô

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

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.

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...

1961 Japanese movie

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide