Chōko Iida Movies

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Japanese drama film.

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

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

A 1937 Japanese film.

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

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

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

1958 Japanese movie

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

Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

Japanese comedy film.