Chōko Iida Movies

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

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

Japanese comedy film.

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...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

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...

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...

A 1937 Japanese film.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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