Screenplay: Ryôsuke Saitô

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Chishu Ryu · Hisako Yamane · Yôko Sugi · Mie Kitahara

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Chieko Murata · Chishu Ryu

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Shin Saburi · Toru Hirose · Saburo Kashii

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Yuriko Hamada · Chizuru Kitagawa · Michitaro Mizushima

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiro'o Fukazawa · Yuriko Hanabusa · Ikuko Hirano

Plot First film in a three part series. Dramatization of the popular radio drama of the same title. While searching for his one and only brother after returning home from WWII,...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yasumi Hara · Shinichi Himori · Chishu Ryu · Toru Abe

Plot The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiro'o Fukazawa · Yuriko Hanabusa · Ikuko Hirano

Plot Second film in a three part series. After building a house on the hill for war orphans, Shu¯hei goes to Tokyo to find his missing brother, Shu¯kichi. Although he cannot...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura · Minoru Shibuya

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Kinuyo Tanaka

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kuniko Miyake · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Shinichirô Minami · Shunji Sakai · Kin'ichi Shimizu

Plot Early comedy by Kawashima Yuzo about an isolated island community.

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Toru Abe · Jun Fujimaki · Kôichi Fujiyama · Gai Harada

Plot A crime boss gets out of prison and sets out to find who from his organization has betrayed him. Directed by Inoue Umetsugu ("The Man Who Raises a Storm").

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ichirô Arishima · Yaeko Mizutani · Hajime Hana · Frankie Sakai

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Sanae Takasugi · Mieko Takamine · Eiko Takamatsu

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Mineko Bandai · Kakuko Chino · Takanobu Hozumi · Kaneko Iwasaki

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 Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shin Saburi

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yumeko Aizome · Yuriko Hanabusa · Masao Inoue · Yoshiko Kawada

Plot Third film in a three part series. One day, a boy named Kuro arrives at the house on the hill, a home that a kindly man named Shu¯hei built for...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Sumiko Mizukubo · Jun Arai · Shusei Nomura

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Noriko Awaya · Akiko Futaba · Toshio Hosokawa · Hisao Itô

Plot Aspiring singer goes to Tokyo to meet her musician father, whose existence was revealed by her dying mother. When her father refuses to recongize her, she is comforted by a...

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Shin Saburi · Mieko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Keiji Sada

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

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