The best Chôchô Miyako’s comedy movies

Chôchô Miyako

Chôchô Miyako

06/07/1920- 12/10/2000
Today we present the best Chôchô Miyako’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Chôchô Miyako’s movies.

The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1957
  • Character: Yae
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Tora-san's Cherished Mother
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1969
  • Character: Okiku
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

The Graceful Brute

The Graceful Brute
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/12/1962
  • Character: Yuki
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1971
  • Character: Kiku
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

The Shy Deceiver

The Shy Deceiver
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1968
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

Nippon no obaachan

Nippon no obaachan
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1962
  • Character: Sato
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

Red Diamond

Red Diamond
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/10/1964
  • Character: Otora
After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.

A Country Boss

A Country Boss
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1962
  • Character: Landlady
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Tenya wanya jirōchō dōchō

Tenya wanya jirōchō dōchō
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1963

Traveling in Party

Traveling in Party
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/11/1967
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Kawachi No Ossan No Uta

Kawachi No Ossan No Uta

Yaji Kita manzai dochu-Bakehime sodo no maki

Yaji Kita manzai dochu-Bakehime sodo no maki
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/04/1955

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