Chōko Iida Movies

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...

A 1937 Japanese film.

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

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

1961 Japanese movie

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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...

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...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...