Chōko Iida Movies

Japanese Warmovie

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

1962 Japanese movie

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

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

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

1961 Japanese movie

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

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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...