Chōko Iida Movies

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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....

When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the...

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

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

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

1962 Japanese movie

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

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

1950 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

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...