Chōko Iida Movies

1958 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

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

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

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...

Japanese drama film.

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

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

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...

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

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

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

1950 Japanese movie

Period film from 1934.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...