Chōko Iida
Acting
Biography
Chôko Iida (飯田 蝶子, 15 April 1897 - 26 December 1972) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Shigehara Tefu. She played working class women and grandmothers, and appeared in more than 300 films. Her husband was cameraman Shigehara Hideo. Description above from the Wikipedia article lida Chōko, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: April 15, 1897
Place of Birth: Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing tournament.
Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger brother is the only one who could sway him. Meanwhile, Omitsu, a hotel employee tired of Echigo-ya’s wife’s arrogance, teams up with Kitahara to stage a scheme where a vagrant young man pretends to be the noble’s lost brother, aiming to trick and embarrass the wealthy woman.
Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
Forever a Woman
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Summer Clouds
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 out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Until the Day We Meet Again
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Filmography
as Kurokawa
as Riki Tanuma
as Riki Tanuma
as Yuichi's Grandmother
as Odanaka Masako (Owariya Chairwoman)
as Riki Tanuma
as 田沼りき
as Old Lady
as Hitoshi's Grandmother
as Otami
as Okuni
as 田沼りき
as Riki Tanuma
as Riki Tanuma
as Hana
as Riki
as Riki Tanuma
as Miho no sobo
as Elderly Woman on Train
as Shirō's Mother
as Sugi
as Hidé
as Otora
as Kane Ishigaki
as Grandmother
as Masu
as Omaki
as Tsuna Uemura
as Hide
as Tatsu, the mother
as Osan
as Matsuyo
as Kiyo Yamamoto
as Kikuyo
as Akiyama grandmother
as おしん
as Seeds
as Teisaku's mother
as お蝶
as Oseki, old maid
as Kogetsu Hotel manager
as Kohei's Mother
as Okura
as Yûko Kôriyama
as Bâya
as Tama Takemura
as Otane
as Wife of bathhouse owner
as Otaka
as Landlady
as Okei
as Woman at tobacco shop
as Chiyoko Sugiyama
as Tsune Nonomiya
as Otoku, Seiichi's mother
as Oyuki
as Wife of the b.h. owner
as Okane
as Otsune
as Okimi
as Otsune
as Otsune
as Hamako
as Maid
as Ogen, mistress
as Lodging House Wife
as Otome
as Masuko
as Landlady
as Geisha
as Neighbor
as Nui, Fuwa's wife
as Maid
as Saiki's mother
as Mistress of hotel
as Sensei no tusma
as Bar Madame
as Bar Madam
as Hiroko's Mother
as Keiko Tachibana
as Landlady
as Aunty
as Geisha's house landlady
as Ritsuko, Takai's wife
as Maid