Cinematography: Jun Yasumoto

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yûzô Kayama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yumi Shirakawa

Plot 19 year old girl loses husband in war. Bombing destroys his family's shop and the widow stays to rebuild it as the rest of the family flee and runs it...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Keiko Awaji

Plot Nobuko is a woman who suffered her husband's death and had to raise her son by herself. She also has to face disappointment when her son decides to marry a...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chikage Awashima · Masayuki Mori · Yuriko Hoshi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jun Fujimaki · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot It concerns an aging mother who lives in Tokyo, her five grown children, and several of their spouses, nearly all of whom have money troubles. When one of the daughters...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Akemi Kita · Reiko Dan

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Kuroemon Onoe · Kaoru Yachigusa

Plot With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Eijirô Tono · Ko Mihashi · Kunimori Kodo

Plot After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge...

Direction Sadao Yamanaka

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Kiyozo · Kunitaro Sawamura · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Plot The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure...

Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada · Akira Takarada · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ayako Wakao · Ryo Ikebe · Takashi Shimura

Plot A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Tatsuya Nakadai · Fujiko Yamamoto · Chikage Awashima

Plot Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Keiko Kishi · Kaoru Yachigusa · Daisuke Kato

Plot It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Rentarô Mikuni · Mieko Takamine · Chieko Nakakita

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Minoru Takada · Isuzu Yamada · Joji Oka · Akira Kishii

Direction Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Kitsunosuke Bando · Satoko Date · Kyôzô Fuyuki · Kikuko Hanaoka

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tomoemon Otani · Ryotaro Mizushima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Kichijiro Ueda · Fujiko Fukamizu · Takako Irie

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Junzaburo Ban · Chikage Awashima

Plot A longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.