Chōko Iida Movies

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

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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

Dotanba - Last Minute

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.