Movies: Chōko Iida

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island....

Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka....

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over something trivial, and her wife runs away from home, causing a fuss, but she returns to normal. Selected by...

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

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...

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...

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho....

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the rescue of various women in peril, teaches a would-be restauranteur how to make sukiyaki, thwarts the rom...

Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho....

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home....

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel....

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. ...

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and dream of a better future....

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima....

Japanese film from 1932....

Japanese comedy film....

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

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