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Chōko Iida

Acting Born Apr 15, 1897 Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Stray Dog

as Kogetsu Hotel manager
Film

Drunken Angel

as Bâya

Full filmography

  • Stray Dog (1949) as Kogetsu Hotel manager
  • Drunken Angel (1948) as Bâya
  • Middle-Aged Man (1943)
  • Sanshiro Sugata (1965) as Old Lady
  • A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
  • The Only Son (1936) as Tsune Nonomiya
  • Forever a Woman (1955) as Hide
  • The Eleventh Hour (1957) as Kane Ishigaki
  • The Rickshaw Man (1958) as Otora
  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) as Otsune
  • Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) as Okura
  • Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) as Tane
  • Summer Clouds (1958) as Hidé
  • Let's Go! Young Guy (1967) as Riki Tanuma
  • The Naked Sun (1958)
  • Kagebōshi (1950) as お蝶
  • Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949) as Kohei's Mother
  • Las Vegas Free-For-All (1967)
  • Darkness at Noon (1956) as Tsuna Uemura
  • Young Guy at Sea (1965) as 田沼りき
  • The Body (1962)
  • The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932) as Nui, Fuwa's wife
  • Young Guy in Hawaii (1963) as 田沼りき
  • College Champ (1962) as Riki Tanuma