Movies: Chōko Iida

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

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....

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Japanese drama film....

1962 Japanese movie...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to eac...

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing tournament....

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

1950 Japanese movie...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the direc...

Japanese comedy film....

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A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods....

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 marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains wher...

A 1937 Japanese film....

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi....

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, ...

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 by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film....

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