Chōko Iida Movies

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Japanese war movie.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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 young couple is harrased by an uncle.

1958 Japanese movie

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

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

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

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Yuzo Kayama visits Brazil

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

1958 Japanese movie

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

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...