Iida Chōko
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Iida Chōko 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.
Iida Choko
The Only Son (1936)
Days of Youth (1929)
Stray Dog (film)
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Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama noir film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Ar
Iida Chōko
…freelancer. Her first post-war film with Yasujirō Ozu was Record of a Tenement Gentleman, in 1947. She also appeared in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel and Stray Dog, Hiroshi Inagaki's Rickshaw Man, and Horikawa Hiromichi's Hadaka no Taisho. She also played the main character's grandmother in Toho's Wakadaisho series…
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Stray Dog contains elements associated with film noir and was a precursor to the buddy cop film genre.