Movies: Chōko Iida

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto....

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and ...

1950 Japanese movie...

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 of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was ki...

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit....

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....

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

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

A young couple is harrased by an uncle....

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

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, an...

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street perfo...

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, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able t...

An Ishiro Honda film....

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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 proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actuall...

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 girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film....

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

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan....