Cast: Kaoru Itô

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Plot Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet....

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Takako Irie · Hideo Saeki · Heihachiro Okawa · Chizuko Kanda

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Musei Tokugawa · Noriko Honma · Akira Ubukata · Kaoru Itô

Plot Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ureo Egawa · Isamu Eto · Susumu Fujita

Plot A wartime drama defending the Japanese presence in China. To paraphrase Sato Tadao in Currents in Japanese Cinema (1982): Japan's imperial adventure is mirrored in the romance between a Japanese...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ranko Hanai · Takako Irie · Kaoru Itô · Tomoko Ito

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Minoru Takada · Takako Irie · Chieko Takehisa · Sadao Maruyama

Direction Yutaka Abe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Taizô Fukami · Katsuhiko Haida · Seishirô Hara

Plot The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie · Kamatari Fujiwara · Sadako Sawamura

Plot The story begins in 1929 with Sugai ((Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. He works his way up, over the course of the narrative, from mirror-cleaner...

Direction Shigeo Yagura

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Timiko Itô

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Minoru Takada · Takako Irie · Chieko Takehisa · Sadao Maruyama

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Setsuko Hara · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yataro Kurokawa · Susumu Fujita

Plot A Japanese wartime propaganda drama made nearly a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor to celebrate the victory.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chikako Hosokawa · Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara