Movies: Chōko Iida

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 an artificial lake....

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi....

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Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand...

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

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 by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film....

Japanese drama film....

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken....

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Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street perfo...

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A 1937 Japanese film....

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 of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was ki...

Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series...

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Period film from 1934....

1958 Japanese movie...

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film....

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu....

Yuzo Kayama visits Brazil...