Cast: Kuniko Igawa

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Chikage Awashima · Kuniko Miyake

Plot In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Keiko Kishi · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Michiko Kuwano · Mitsuko Miura · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Takahiro Tamura · Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kuniko Igawa · Kuniko Miyake · Mitsuko Miura · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Shûji Sano · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Igawa

Plot A girl who had left her small Japanese village for the excitement and adventure of the big city--in this case, Tokyo--returns home years later for a visit. However, scandal erupts...

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yasumi Hara · Mitsuko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Direction Kôjirô Sasaki

Cast Sugisaku Aoyama · Toichi Doki · Masao Hayama · Toshio Ichise

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Teiji Takahashi · Takahiro Tamura

Plot Before heading to his new work location in Hokkaido, Keizo goes back to his hometown to visit his family. There, he meets Fuyuko, his teenage sweetheart. She has turn into...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Plot Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yasumi Hara · Chieko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Junji Soneda

Plot A baby girl is left at the doorsteps of a ranch just before her father jumps to his death. Named Yoshiko, she's raised by this ranching family, and forges a...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ken Uehara · Fumiko Katsuragi · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yasumi Hara

Plot A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation's troops. Kinoshita's rural drama was made to promote the war...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Plot Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mieko Takamine · Hideko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Eijirô Tono · Kuniko Igawa · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Eijirô Tono · Chieko Higashiyama

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...