ChÅko Iida – MRQE

Dekigokoro

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Gan

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man’s mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Hitori musuko

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Iwashigumo

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Ibo kyoudai

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Nagaya shinshiroku

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid board.

Kanko no machi

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Muhomatsu no issho

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of Muhmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

Oboroyo no onna