Cast: Fumiko Okamura

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Ranko Hanai · Momoko Kôchi · Toranosuke Ogawa

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Shin Tokudaiji · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot Three men fall in love with the same young woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo's Shitamachi District.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Fumiko Okamura · Soichi Kunijima · Shichiro Sugano

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuo Hanabu · Fumiko Okamura

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Noriko Awaya · Akiko Futaba · Toshio Hosokawa · Hisao Itô

Plot Aspiring singer goes to Tokyo to meet her musician father, whose existence was revealed by her dying mother. When her father refuses to recongize her, she is comforted by a...

Direction Kintarô Inoue

Cast Shusuke Agata · Mariko Aoyama · Fumie Azuma · Toichi Doki

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Kimiyo Ôtsuka

Plot An penniless orphan loses the woman he loves when her parents arrange a marriage to the son of a wealthy banking family. He believes she was blinded by greed and...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Ken Uehara

Plot The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Keiju Kobayashi · Asami Kuji · Mie Hama

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Tomio Aoki · Mary Dean · Hatsue Gion · Masao Hayama

Plot Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. Haru’s group of friends (which includes the always good Tomio Aoki)...

Direction Kenkichi Hara · Minoru Shibuya

Cast Choko Iida · Reikichi Kawamura · Michiko Kuwano · Fumiko Okamura

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Chikako Hosokawa · Jutaru Hojo

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Fumiko Katsuragi · Fusako Maki · Mitsuko Mito · Masami Morikawa

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Sô Yamamura · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Toru Abe

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Takashi Shimura · Shin Saburi · Koji Mitsui · Yosuke Hansawa

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Hajime Asada · Keiko Chigaura · Choko Iida · Yaeko Izumo

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ken Uehara · Eijirô Tono · Chiyo Shin · Makoto Kobori

Plot A few residents on a street in Tokyo are supposed to be evacuated because of the war. Individual stories come into focus in a densely woven portrait of neighbours young...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hajime Izu · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kuniko Miyake · Mayuri Mokusho

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Hideo Fujino · Mitsuko Higashiyama

Plot A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura (Uehara), falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi (Tanaka). But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Mitsuko Kusabue · Akemi Negishi · Reiko Dan · Kenji Sahara