Chōko Iida Movies

College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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

Japanese drama film.

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

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

1950 Japanese movie

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

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