Chōko Iida Movies

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

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

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...

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...

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...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

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

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.