Cast: Kenji Oyama

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Haruo Takeda · Yoshiko Tsubouchi · Sumiko Mizukubo

Plot The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kenji Oyama · Shigeru Ogura · Shizue Hyodo · Einosuke Naka

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Toru Hirose · Akio Isono · Sojin

Plot 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...

Direction Hôtei Nomura

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

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Kinuyo Tanaka · Takeshi Sakamoto · Tomio Aoki

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kenji Oyama · Kinuko Wakamizu · Norio Ôtsuka

Plot A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

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

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

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Atsushi Watanabe · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Kenji Oyama · Tomoko Naniwa

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Chiyoko Shimakura · Shinji Yamada · Kichijiro Ueda · Noriko Honma

Plot The film is about young lovers trying to listen to their heart despite their parent's interjecting.

Direction Tarô Yuge

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hideo Takamatsu · Kazuko Miyakawa

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kaneko Iwasaki · Kyôko Enami · Tomoo Nagai

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Masao Hayama · Michiyo Kogure · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Toru Hirose

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Kenji Kimura · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Tomio Aoki · Mary Dean · Hatsue Gion · Masao Hayama

Plot Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. Haru’s group of friends (which includes the always good Tomio Aoki)...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Toshiaki Konoe · Kenji Oyama · Kinuko Wakamizu

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Ineko Arima · Sô Yamamura · Tatsuo Saito

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tokuji Kobayashi · Tatsuo Saito · Ureo Egawa

Plot Five friends make a pact to stick together through school, agreeing to graduate at the same time and to marry at the same time...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shin Saburi · Sanae Takasugi · Ken Uehara · Michiko Kuwano

Plot Shuzo and Ichiro are childhood friends who go their own ways but re-encounter each other some years later after they have both married. They become good friends again and although...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Chikako Hosokawa · Jutaru Hojo

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Fumiko Katsuragi · Fusako Maki · Mitsuko Mito · Masami Morikawa