Cinematography: Hiroyuki Kusuda

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Teiji Takahashi · Takahiro Tamura

Plot Before heading to his new work location in Hokkaido, Keizo goes back to his hometown to visit his family. There, he meets Fuyuko, his teenage sweetheart. She has turn into...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Plot Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yasumi Hara · Chieko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Junji Soneda

Plot A baby girl is left at the doorsteps of a ranch just before her father jumps to his death. Named Yoshiko, she's raised by this ranching family, and forges a...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsutomu Matsukawa · Yusuke Kawazu · Shinichiro Mikami · Kei Yamamoto

Plot Four best friends face college life in different ways. One of them receives a surprising offer to be a TV star. Things are changing for all of them.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ken Uehara · Fumiko Katsuragi · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yasumi Hara

Plot A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation's troops. Kinoshita's rural drama was made to promote the war...

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Tamotsu Hayakawa · Mickey Curtis

Plot In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiji Sada · Isamu Kosugi · Toyo Takahashi

Plot A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mariko Kaga · Kinuyo Tanaka

Plot A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Shinji Tanaka · Yûko Mochizuki

Plot Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Son of fishmongers, he lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. He has only the binoculars left to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Toshinosuke Nagao · Shin Tokudaiji · Mitsuko Miura

Plot A Japanese family raised on liberal principles endures wartime hardships.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yôko Katsuragi · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Plot Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mariko Okada · Bunta Sugawara · Eiji Okada · Kinuyo Tanaka

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Chishu Ryu · Teruko Kishi · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Katsuragi

Plot A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they are replacing.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mieko Takamine · Hideko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Yoshiko Kuga · Chieko Baisho

Plot Yoshio Nonaka (Keiji Sada), un soldado recién desmovilizado, vuelve a Japón encontrando Tokyo destruido, su casa inclusive. Felizmente da con su familia, que había huido al campo: allí obtendrá trabajo...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Akiko Tamura · Akira Ishihama · Chishu Ryu · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot A family evacuates Tokyo due to air raids. The first son opts to remain in the city, but he eventually rejoins his relatives. However, he'll soon discover that life is...

Direction Yoshiro Kawazu

Cast Hiroshi Akutagawa · Minoru Oki · Chishu Ryu · Koji Shidara