![]() ![]() She debuted in the film Shi ni iku tsuma. In January 1923, Iida officially entered the company. They originally hired only Iida's friend, but one of Iida's colleagues who worked at Shochiku stepped in and encouraged them to hire her for supporting roles, like maids. In 1922 Iida and a friend from her newspaper days applied to work at the Shochiku Kamata Shashincho. Iida applied to work at film studios, but was rejected. When the theater director died in 1920, the theater was dissolved. They hired Iida, but she found that all of her roles were of handmaidens. That autumn, Nakamura Matagoro, a kabuki actor, put out an ad in the Miyako Shinbun for an actress to perform for a theater called the Asakusa Koen Gekijo. In 1919, Iida began writing for an entertainment newspaper company in Nihonbashi. She worked in several positions there, including in the sewing department and as a clerk. In 1913 Iida began working at the Matsuzakaya in Ueno. She stopped attending school for two months until the seasonal exhibition closed in autumn. She eventually found that she enjoyed working more than school. After studying at a private elementary school, Iida entered the Ueno Koto Jogakko with her grandmother's help, and worked at an outdoor exhibition at night to help with the family's finances. Iida was the oldest of 5 children, but because of their poverty the children became malnourished and developed nyctalopia. Though her father was a minor official with the Ministry of Communications, the family didn't have much money, so Iida was sent to live with her maternal grandmother at 2 years old. Iida was born on April 15, 1897, in what is now Asakusa, Tokyo. Her husband was cameraman Shigehara Hideo. She played working class women and grandmothers, and appeared in more than 300 films. Iida Chōko (飯田 蝶子) (Ap– December 26, 1972) was a Japanese actress.
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