Cast: Akio Isono

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Yumeko Aizome · Yukichi Iwata · Choko Iida · Yoshiko Okada

Synopsis Two families live in rural or suburban Japan, somewhere in the Kansai region probably. The two families are quite close to each other; the two fathers are drinking buddies, the children are friends, and the mothers happily look out for...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Shinobu · Akio Isono · Hikaru Yamanouchi · Nobuko Wakaba

Synopsis Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Akio Isono · Sumiko Mizukubo · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Minoru Oki · Keiko Kishi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 when the villagers find out what she has been doing...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masao Wakahara · Chikage Awashima · Toshiko Kobayashi

Synopsis A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Sanae Takasugi · Tokuji Kobayashi · Tomio Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband takes place in a family-run judo school.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Minoru Chiaki · Kazuo Dan · Kikuko Hanaoka

Synopsis 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Shozaburo Abe · Mariko Aoyama · Hideo Fujino · Masao Hayama

Synopsis Okinu, daughter of the owner of a hosiery business, is in love with Yukidon the young manager of the shop. However, whenever the two meet, they fight. When the landlord asks Okinu's father if he can adopt the young man...

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Chikage Awashima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Akio Isono · Kyoko Kami

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Toru Hirose · Akio Isono · Sojin

Synopsis This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production,...

Direction Hôtei Nomura

Cast Nobuko Fushimi · Hideo Fujino · Fumiko Katsuragi · Mitsuko Ichimura

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Shozaburo Abe · Munenobu Aburai · Shôtarô Fujimatsu · Chiematsu Hanamura

Synopsis The life story of Kojiro Nishizumi. Following in his father's footsteps, Nishizumi goes to military school and is sent to the Chinese front. He becomes the leader of a tank regiment and his easy and generous ways quickly win over...

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Ureo Egawa · Shinichi Himori · Choko Iida · Akio Isono

Direction Hôtei Nomura

Cast Shozaburo Abe · Shinobu Aoki · Kiyoshi Aono · Ryuko Fuji

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Shin Tokudaiji · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis Three men fall in love with the same young woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo's Shitamachi District.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Hideo Fujino · Tokiko Hada · Masao Hayama

Synopsis A business man runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shin Saburi

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Keiko Awaji · Chikage Awashima · Kimie Hayashi · Shinichi Himori

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Sadako Sawamura · Noriko Arita · Akira Ishihama

Synopsis A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.