Chōko Iida Movies

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

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

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

Japanese drama film.

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

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

1961 Japanese movie

A 1937 Japanese film.

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

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

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand