Cast: Ranko Akagi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Shinsuke Ashida · Yusuke Kawazu · Ranko Akagi

Plot In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Masumi Harukawa · Kô Nishimura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Yûko Kusunoki

Plot The film tells the story of a dull, plump housewife living in poverty with a common-law husband, his son by another woman, and his mother. When she is raped by...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Chieko Takehisa · Osamu Takizawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Hideko Takamine · Musei Tokugawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Shiro Mizutani

Plot A girl living in a poor neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, Japan. Its prospects are, like those of the rest of the family, not very rosy. Her teacher noted, however, her...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Mie Kitahara · Nobuko Otowa · Rentarô Mikuni · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Koreya Senda · Masao Mishima · Ranko Akagi · Yutaka Izumihara

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kei Sato · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Direction Sotoji Kimura

Cast Ranko Akagi · Saburo Azumaya · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yuriko Hanabusa

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 Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yôko Yaguchi · Kyôko Kusajima · Masao Mishima · Eitarô Ozawa