Chōko Iida Movies

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...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

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...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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

Japanese Warmovie

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

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

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

1958 Japanese movie

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

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...

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

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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