Chōko Iida Movies

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

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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

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...

Japanese film from 1929.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

1950 Japanese movie

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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

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