Chōko Iida Movies

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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

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

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

A 1937 Japanese film.

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 ha...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic...

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

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neig...

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 girlf...

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge b...

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...