Cast: Yotaro Katsumi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kamatari Fujiwara · Daijirô Natsukawa · Tamae Kiyokawa

Synopsis Hideko the Bus Conductress, Mikio Naruse's deceptively lighthearted comic confection, is the writer-director's first collaboration (of a total 17) with the great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine. As the teenage bus conductress O-Koma, Takamine might best be described as beatification personified,...

Direction Shôzô Makino

Cast Yotaro Katsumi · Kobunji Ichikawa · Tsuzuya Moroguchi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Hajime Izu · Hyô Kitazawa · Kokuten Kôdô

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 deep friendship with her older adoptive brother, Jingo. When Jingo...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Choko Iida · Gen Shimizu · Yotaro Katsumi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Shizue Natsukawa · Ichiro Sugai · Haruko Sugimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

Synopsis Other film-makers simply ignored national policy. Shiro Toyoda's 1940 Spring on Lepers' Island (Kojima no Haru), based on a female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony, was a cry for humanism in an age marching toward...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Minoru Takada · Noboru Kiritachi · Tomoko Ito · Ureo Egawa

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Noboru Kiritachi · Masako Tsutsumi · Haruko Sugimura · Yotaro Katsumi

Synopsis Uguisu (The Nightingale) drew on a story of the same title published that year by Einosuke Ito. Here the frame of reference is a subgenre that called itself agrarian literature. Ito's tale is an episodic account of peasants responding to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 and old: a woman still mourning her husband, who disappeared...