Movies: Chōko Iida

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

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and decided to catch the culprit, not only for the sake of the beautiful wife of Utsugi, Chika, but also for hi...

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A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya...

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving....

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...

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

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a fi...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka....

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan....

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job....

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl....

A continuation of the prior film (影法師)....

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film....

Japanese war movie....

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