Chōko Iida Movies

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...

Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.

A 1937 Japanese film.

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

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

1950 Japanese movie

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

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

Period film from 1934.

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

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...

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

Young Guy graduates from University.

1962 Japanese movie

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.