Chōko Iida Movies

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese film from 1929.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

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,...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.