Chōko Iida Movies

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

1962 Japanese movie

1958 Japanese movie

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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