Direction: Zenzo Matsuyama

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara · Susumu Hani · Yoshiro Kawazu · Kyushiro Kusakabe

Synopsis Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to bring a newsreel-style snapshot of Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and a half million people and was the largest city in the world. The industry of the people is evident, with Katsushika...

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiju Kobayashi · Sen Hara · Michiko Araki

Synopsis After losing her husband, Akiko, a young deaf woman, meets and marries a deaf and dumb man who falls for her. Despite their lack of financial resources and the burden of their disabilities, they decide to have a baby.

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

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

Synopsis 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 soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate,...

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Takako Miki · Hirosato Oonishi · Takehiro Murata

Synopsis Hisako, a child of a family of farmers living in the Tohoku region of Japan, narrates the struggles of her family when her father becomes paralyzed. Once grown, she decides to go back and see her family.

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Emi Wakui · Atsuro Watabe · Yoshiyuki Omori · Maki Mizuno