Chōko Iida Movies

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

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...

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...

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...

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

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...

1950 Japanese movie

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

1950 Japanese movie

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

1961 Japanese movie

Yuzo Kayama visits Brazil