Chōko Iida Movies

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

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

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

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.

1958 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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...

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

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

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

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).