Cast: Sachiko Mitani

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Akira Kurosawa · Hideo Sekigawa · Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Susumu Fujita · Hideko Takamine · Kenji Susukida · Masayuki Mori

Plot Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Sadako Sawamura · Mariko Okada · Masami Taura · Miyuki Kuwano

Plot Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Minoru Takada · Setsuko Hara · Hideo Saito · Ichiro Sugai

Plot The story centres around a border security team in 1935 Korea. Upon receiving new recruits they hold a welcome party including a restaurant owner and his daughter. The border's commander...

Direction Tadashi Imai · Fumio Kamei · Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yasuhiko Ishizu · Hajime Izu · Ichiro Sugai

Plot His family believes him dead when a member of the Japanese imperial army deployed to China during the occupation of the latter by the former does not return home following...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Michiyo Kogure · Ranko Akagi · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot A "mother film" about a dedicated, unmarried female doctor and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of her supposed stubbornness. Rated #10 on Kinema Junpo's "10...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Roppa Furukawa · Kazuo Hasegawa · Hideko Takamine · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Roppa Furukawa · Kazuo Hasegawa · Hideko Takamine · Sadako Sawamura