Cinematography: Hiroshi Suzuki

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Plot A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiko Enonami · Kyôko Kagawa · Akihiko Katayama · Daisuke Kato

Plot A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Jûkichi Uno · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), finds a new job five years after the end of WWII. He will write love letters for other people.. His ideas...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Plot Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Tomoko Ito · Ko Mihashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Plot Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet....

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Minoru Takada · Sachiko Murase · Takako Irie · Etchan

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Kimba Sanyutei · Haruko Toda

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Musei Tokugawa · Noriko Honma · Akira Ubukata · Kaoru Itô

Plot Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Masako Tsutsumi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ryuko Umezono

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Yuriko Hanabusa · Mitsuko Hirokawa · Kanta Kisaragi

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yôko Sugi · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisao Toake

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Jun Tazaki · Haruko Sugimura · Yataro Kitagami

Plot The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yuji Hori · Ryo Ikebe · Rieko Sumi · Suzuko Takayama

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Hajime Izu · Hyô Kitazawa · Kokuten Kôdô

Direction Ikko Ono

Plot A trip on a chartered plane with a number of other thrill-seekers (most of whom are anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables) and hop from island to island, each of which offer...

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Katsuhiko Haida · Akitake Kôno

Plot Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are...

Direction Hisatora Kumagai

Cast Chojuro Kawarasaki · Ganemon Nakamura · Shizue Yamagishi · Masako Tsutsumi

Plot It is 1641 and the Hosokawa daimyo has just expired. To show thier loyalty, a large number of his prominent retainers perform ritual self-immolation. Yaichiemon Abe is refused permission, forced...