Chōko Iida Movies

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

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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 mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Japanese film from 1925.

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...

A 1937 Japanese film.

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

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

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

As an orphan, Yamauchi Fumiko was taken in by the politician Kawabe Sotaro and raised by him. Perhaps because of their similar circumstances, she...

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...

Japanese film from 1929.

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...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide