Personal Info
Birth date
1897-04-15 (128 Years)
Day of death
1972-12-26
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
Iida Choko
Iida Chôko
Choko Iida
Тёко Иида
چوکو ایدا
Chôko Lida
Chōko Iida
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.
Filmography
Drunken Angel
7.611
Overview:
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.Record of a Tenement Gentleman
7.204
Overview:
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.Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.9
Overview:
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.Stray Dog
7.539
Overview:
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.Passing Fancy
6.6
Overview:
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.A Story of Floating Weeds
7.123
Overview:
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.Jubilation Street
6.3
Overview:
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.The Rickshaw Man
7.2
Overview:
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.What Did the Lady Forget?
6.4
Overview:
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, 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.Forever a Woman
7.5
Overview:
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.The Only Son
7.384
Overview:
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.A Wanderer's Notebook
7.2
Overview:
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.An Inn in Tokyo
6.9
Overview:
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.Tokyo Chorus
6.733
Overview:
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.The Lady and the Beard
5.9
Overview:
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
6.5
Overview:
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.The Dancing Girl of Izu
6.5
Overview:
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.Sanshiro Sugata
7
Overview:
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.Apart from You
6.925
Overview:
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.Burden of Life
6.4
Overview:
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.Spring Awakens
6.8
Overview:
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.Maria of the Ant Village
NYR
Overview:
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.Summer Clouds
7.5
Overview:
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.Fighting Yasubei
NYR
Overview:
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 killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.Young Guy at Sea
NYR
Overview:
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, boards his rival Blue Guy's boat, and meets a young woman on a small island.The Hill is Full of Flowers
NYR
Overview:
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.7
Overview:
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.Acting
1971やるぞみておれ為五郎 as Unknown
1970Young Guy - The Sky is Ours! as Unknown
1970Bravo, Young Guy as Unknown
1970Okinawa as Unknown
1969Your Favourite as Unknown
1969Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man as Kurokawa
1969Young Guy in New Zealand as Unknown
1969Young Guy - Freshman as Unknown
1968Young Guy in Rio as Unknown
1968The Million Dollar Pursuit as Unknown
1967Circuit-A-Go-Go as Unknown
1967The Young Ace in the South Pacific as Riki Tanuma
1967Las Vegas Free-For-All as Unknown
1967Let's Go! Young Guy as Riki Tanuma
1966Come Marry Me as Unknown
1966Young Ace in the Alps as Yuichi's Grandmother
1966Gamblers' Luck as Unknown
1966A Company President's Life Story as Odanaka Masako (Owariya Chairwoman)
1965Campus A Go-Go as Riki Tanuma
1965Young Guy at Sea as 田沼りき
1965Sanshiro Sugata as Old Lady
1964The Donkey Comes on a Tank as Unknown
1964Japan's No. 1 Braggart as Hitoshi's Grandmother
1964Hot Spring Doctress as Otami
1963The Hill is Full of Flowers as Okuni
1963The Young Ace in Hawaii as 田沼りき
1963Itsudemo yume o as Unknown
1962The Body as Unknown
1962Shin kitsune to tanuki as Unknown
1962A Wanderer's Notebook as Unknown
1962College Champ as Riki Tanuma
1962Pig and Goldfish as Unknown
1962Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama as Unknown
1962The Crimson Sky as Unknown
1962Pride of the Campus as Riki Tanuma
1962Nippon no obaachan as Hana
1961Wind and waves of the South as Riki
1961Sir Galahad in Campus as Riki Tanuma
1961The Other Woman as Miho no sobo
1961Playboy President as Elderly Woman on Train
1961The Wind and Waves as Unknown
1961Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi as Unknown
1961Lovers of Ginza as Unknown
1960Yami wo saku kuchibue as Unknown
1960New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Shirō's Mother
1959おヤエの女中と幽霊 as Unknown
1959Diary of Forsaken Love as Unknown
1959Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy as Unknown
1959Flower Shop Curtain as Unknown
1959Echo Mountain as Unknown
1958Maria of the Ant Village as Unknown
1958The Undefeated Woman as Unknown
1958The Naked Sun as Unknown
1958Summer Clouds as Hidé
1958Hana no yukyo-den as Unknown
1958Detective Duel as Unknown
1958Tabi sugata nezumi kozō as Unknown
1958Holiday in Japan as Unknown
1958The Rickshaw Man as Otora
1958A Bridge for Two Alone as Unknown
1957The Eleventh Hour as Kane Ishigaki
1957The Beauty Expert as Unknown
1957On Wings of Love as Grandmother
1957Stepbrothers as Masu
1957Yellow Crow as Unknown
1956Typhoon as Unknown
1956Dotanba as Unknown
1956Tonari no yome as Unknown
1956The Ghosts of Yotsuya as Omaki
1956Twice on a Certain Night as Unknown
1956Darkness at Noon as Tsuna Uemura
1955Rikidozan: Man of Fury as Unknown
1955The Motherless as Unknown
1955Forever a Woman as Hide
1955Policeman's Diary, Part 2 as Unknown
1955The Samurai of Edo as Unknown
1955Three Faces as Unknown
1955Growing Up as Unknown
1955Policeman's Diary as Tatsu, the mother
1955All is Well as Unknown
1954The Cock Crows Twice as Unknown
1954Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido as Unknown
1954The Ditch as Unknown
1953The Wild Geese as Osan
1952Four Asakusa Sisters as Unknown
1952Fighting Yasubei as Unknown
1952Tokyo Sweetheart as Matsuyo
1952Love's Cheerleader as Kiyo Yamamoto
1952Divorce as Kikuyo
1952The Stand in Hakone as Unknown
1951Who Knows a Woman's Heart as Unknown
1951Over That Hill as Unknown
1951Wakôdo no uta as Kiyo
1951Still I Live On as Akiyama grandmother
1951情艶一代女 as おしん
1950Beyond the Hills as Unknown
1950A Mother's Love as Unknown
1950Guntō nanban-sen as Unknown
1950Peko-chan and Densuke as Unknown
1950Sanshiro of Ginza as Seeds
1950Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san as Unknown
1950Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka as Teisaku's mother
1950Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu as Unknown
1950Kagebōshi as お蝶
1949Mr. Shosuke Ohara as Oseki, old maid
1949Stray Dog as Kogetsu Hotel manager
1949Akireta musumetachi as Unknown
1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 as Kohei's Mother
1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 as Okura
1949Ishimatsu of the Forest as Unknown
1949Flirtation in Spring as Unknown
1948Ghosts Die at Dawn as Yûko Kôriyama
1948Drunken Angel as Bâya
1947Spring Awakens as Tama Takemura
1947Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Otane
1946Lord for a Night as Unknown
1945Izu no musumetachi as Unknown
1944Jubilation Street as Wife of bathhouse owner
1944Sailor as Unknown
1944Sinking the Unsinkable as Unknown
1943Middle-Aged Man as Unknown
1943Air Raid of the Enemy Plane as Otaka
1942A Certain Woman as Unknown
1942South Wind 2 as Unknown
1942Moon of the Plateau as Unknown
1941Flower as Unknown
1941Notes of an Itinerant Performer as Landlady
1941Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Kiyo
1940Utsukushiki Rinjin as Unknown
1940Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru as Unknown
1940Nobuko as Okei
1939Mother is Strong as Unknown
1937Goodbye to the Front as Unknown
1937The Trio's Engagements as Woman at tobacco shop
1937What Did the Lady Forget? as Chiyoko Sugiyama
1937Moon Over the Ruins as Miura's mother
1936Housewife Camellia as Unknown
1936The Only Son as Tsune Nonomiya
1936Men vs. Women as Unknown
1936Woman in the Mist as Otoku, Seiichi's mother
1936Family Meeting as Oyuki
1936College Is a Nice Place as Wife of the b.h. owner
1935Burden of Life as Okane
1935An Inn in Tokyo as Otsune
1935Okoto and Sasuke as Okimi
1935An Innocent Maid as Otsune
1934A Story of Floating Weeds as Otsune
1934With a Single Sword Bale as Unknown
1934Our Neighbor, Miss Yae as Hamako
1934A Mother Should Be Loved as Maid
1934The Genealogy of Women as Ogen, mistress
1933Love as Unknown
1933Happy Times as Unknown
1933Passing Fancy as Otome
1933Two Lanterns as Unknown
1933Every-Night Dreams as Landlady
1933Apart from You as Unknown
1933The Dancing Girl of Izu as Geisha
1933The Bride Talks in Her Sleep as Neighbor
1932Until the Day We Meet Again as Maid
1932Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? as Saiki's mother
1932Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story as Unknown
1932Arashi no naka no shojo as Unknown
1932Tengoku ni musubu koi as Unknown
1932First Steps Ashore as Mistress of hotel
1932The Loyal 47 Ronin as Nui, Fuwa's wife
1931Tokyo Chorus as Sensei no tusma
1931Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 as Unknown
1931The Lady and the Beard as Hiroko's Mother
1929I Graduated, But... as Landlady
1929Days of Youth as Aunty
1929Treasure Mountain as Geisha's house landlady
1928Physical Beauty as Ritsuko, Takai's wife
1927Sword of Penitence as Unknown
1926Karabotan as Unknown