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.

KNOWN FOR

Drunken Angel
1948
時間ですよ
1970
Stray Dog
1949
Konna bidanshi mita kotonai
1954
Young Guy in the South Pacific
1967
Hida no ko tengu
1951
Snowy Night Duel
1954
The Rickshaw Man
1958
Fox and Raccoon
1959
Family Safety
1958
His Highness Surabaya
1955
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
223
1971
やるぞみておれ為五郎
1970
Bravo, Young Guy
1970
Okinawa
1970
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1970
時間ですよ
as たき
1969
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
as Kurokawa
1969
Your Favourite
1969
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
1969
Young Guy Graduates
1968
The Million Dollar Pursuit
1968
Young Guy in Rio
1967
Young Guy in the South Pacific
as Riki Tanuma
1967
Las Vegas Free-For-All
1967
Let's Go! Young Guy
as Riki Tanuma
1967
Circuit-A-Go-Go
1966
Gamblers' Luck
1966
It Started In The Alps
as Yuichi's Grandmother
1966
Come Marry Me
1966
A Company President's Life Story
as Odanaka Masako (Owariya Chairwoman)
1965
Young Guy at Sea
as 田沼りき
1965
Campus A Go-Go
as Riki Tanuma
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
as Old Lady
1964
Hot Spring Doctress
as Otami
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
as Hitoshi's Grandmother
1963
Itsudemo yume o
1963
Young Guy in Hawaii
as 田沼りき
1963
The Hill is Full of Flowers
as Okuni
1962
The Crimson Sky
1962
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
1962
The Body
1962
Pig and Goldfish
1962
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
Pride of the Campus
as Riki Tanuma
1962
Nippon no obaachan
as Hana
1962
College Champ
as Riki Tanuma
1961
Wind and waves of the South
as Riki
1961
The Other Woman
as Miho no sobo
1961
Sir Galahad in Campus
as Riki Tanuma
1961
Lovers of Ginza
1961
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
The Wind and Waves
1961
Playboy President
as Elderly Woman on Train
1961
Ginza Jungle Girl
as Kume (Goro's mother)
1960
Yami wo saku kuchibue
1960
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
as Shirō's Mother
1959
Flower Shop Curtain
1959
Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
1959
The Maid Oyae Meets A Ghost
1959
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
Echo Mountain
1959
Fox and Raccoon
as Sugi
1959
おヤエの女中の大将
1958
The Rickshaw Man
as Otora
1958
Summer Clouds
as Hidé
1958
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
Detective Duel
1958
The Naked Sun
as Ine
1958
Maria of the Ant Village
1958
A Bridge for Two Alone
1958
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1958
The Undefeated Woman
1958
Holiday in Japan
1958
The Naked General
1958
Family Safety
1958
Fancy Talker
1957
Yellow Crow
1957
The Beauty Expert
1957
The Eleventh Hour
as Kane Ishigaki
1957
On Wings of Love
as Grandmother
1957
Stepbrothers
as Masu
1956
Dotanba
1956
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
as Omaki
1956
Tonari no yome
1956
Darkness at Noon
as Tsuna Uemura
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
1956
Typhoon Furor
1956
This Is Home
1956
Hana no unga
1955
The Three Faces
as Okon
1955
Forever a Woman
as Hide
1955
All is Well
1955
Policeman's Diary
as Tatsu, the mother
1955
The Motherless
1955
Growing Up
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Samurai of Edo
1955
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1955
His Highness Surabaya
as Grandmother Okin
1955
Three Brides for Three Sons
1955
Women of Ginza
1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
Ditch
1954
The Cock Crows Twice
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
The Second Kiss
1954
Snowy Night Duel
1954
Konna bidanshi mita kotonai
1953
The Wild Geese
as Osan
1952
Love's Cheerleader
as Kiyo Yamamoto
1952
The Stand in Hakone
1952
Divorce
as Kikuyo
1952
Fighting Yasubei
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Matsuyo
1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
1951
情艶一代女
as おしん
1951
Wakôdo no uta
as Kiyo
1951
Still I Live On
as Akiyama grandmother
1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951
Over That Hill
1951
Hida no ko tengu
1950
Sanshiro of Ginza
as Seeds
1950
Kagebōshi
as お蝶
1950
Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
1950
A Mother's Love
1950
Beyond the Hills
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Teisaku's mother
1950
Peko-chan and Densuke
1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
Asakusa no hada
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Okura
1949
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
as Oseki, old maid
1949
Stray Dog
as Kogetsu Hotel manager
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Kohei's Mother
1949
Flirtation in Spring
1949
Akireta musumetachi
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
1949
Jigoku no fue
1949
Wagakoyue ni
1948
Drunken Angel
as Bâya
1948
Ghosts Die at Dawn
as Yûko Kôriyama
1948
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
1948
Komadori fujin
1948
Hanayome senshu
1948
The Fifth Witness
1948
Sen-hime goten
1948
Suiren fujin to bara musume
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as Tane
1947
Spring Awakens
as Tama Takemura
1946
Lord for a Night
1945
The Young Women of Izu
1944
Sailor
1944
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944
Jubilation Street
as Wife of bathhouse owner
1943
Middle-Aged Man
1943
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
as Otaka
1942
Moon of the Plateau
1942
A Certain Woman
1942
South Wind 2
1941
Flower
1941
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
as Landlady
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
as Kiyo
1940
Nobuko
as Okei
1940
Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1939
Mother is Strong
1937
What Did the Lady Forget?
as Chiyoko Sugiyama
1937
The Trio's Engagements
as Woman at tobacco shop
1937
Moon Over the Ruins
as Miura's mother
1937
Goodbye to the Front
1936
The Only Son
as Tsune Nonomiya
1936
Woman in the Mist
as Otoku, Seiichi's mother
1936
Housewife Camellia
1936
Men vs. Women
1936
Family Meeting
as Oyuki
1936
College Is a Nice Place
as Wife of the b.h. owner
1935
An Inn in Tokyo
as Otsune
1935
Okoto and Sasuke
as Okimi
1935
Burden of Life
as Okane
1935
An Innocent Maid
as Otsune
1934
A Story of Floating Weeds
as Otsune
1934
A Mother Should Be Loved
as Maid
1934
The Genealogy of Women
as Ogen, mistress
1934
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
as Hamako
1934
With a Single Sword Bale
1934
Mother of the East
as Mrs. Kurata (Housekeeper)
1934
Honeymoon
1933
Apart from You
1933
Every-Night Dreams
as Landlady
1933
Passing Fancy
as Otome
1933
Two Lanterns
1933
The Dancing Girl of Izu
as Geisha
1933
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
as Neighbor
1933
Happy Times
1933
Love
1933
The Cheerleading Captain's Love
1933
Before the Wedding
as Masuko
1933
Daphne
as Lodging House Wife
1932
Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
1932
Arashi no naka no shojo
1932
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
as Saiki's mother
1932
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Nui, Fuwa's wife
1932
Until the Day We Meet Again
as Maid
1932
First Steps Ashore
as Mistress of hotel
1932
Tengoku ni musubu koi
1932
My Brother's a Fool
1932
The Sun Rises from the East
1931
Tokyo Chorus
as Sensei no tusma
1931
The Lady and the Beard
as Hiroko's Mother
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
as Bar Madame
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
as Bar Madam
1930
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
as Keiko Tachibana
1929
I Graduated, But...
as Landlady
1929
Treasure Mountain
as Geisha's house landlady
1929
Days of Youth
as Aunty
1929
Scenes of Love
as The teacher
1929
Echigo Lion
1929
The Father and His Son
1928
Physical Beauty
as Ritsuko, Takai's wife
1928
If Only She...
1928
A Wife Quits
as Yasuko
1927
Sword of Penitence
1926
Useless Button
1926
Townspeople
1926
Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
1926
Young Master
as Maid
1926
Torrent
1926
Her
1925
Brave Love
1925
No Need for Your Opinion
as Wife