Chōko Iida Movies

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

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

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

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

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...

A bus driver and a female conductor on a route deep in the mountains are embroiled in a love affair that is depicted in great detail in this...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

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

1958 Japanese movie

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

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.