Chōko Iida Movies

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...

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

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

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

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

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

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

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.