Screenplay: Toshirô Ide

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Tatsuya Mihashi

Synopsis Although Naruse demonstrated mastery of both color and cinemascope in his 60s films, he reverted to black-andd-white Academy format for his antepenultimate film. Perhaps this use of a conservative format was intended to counterbalance the fact that this film involves...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Setsuko Hara · Yukiko Shimazaki · Yôko Sugi

Synopsis Set shortly after World War II, Repast is about a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke and his wife Michiyo. It focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The tedium of her domestic life – consumed by repetitive tasks...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Isuzu Yamada · Hideko Takamine · Mariko Okada

Synopsis The narrative, as adapted from a book by Kodo Aya, concerns Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow whose dire financial circumstances force her to take a housemaid assignment in a failing Tokyo geisha house.

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Synopsis 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 (Setsuko Hara) is widowed, she returns to the family nest...

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Akemi Negishi

Synopsis A young married woman wants to raise enough money to open her own cafe. She gets a loan to fulfill her dream. The arrival of her husband's brother will disrupt these plans.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Sadako Sawamura · Chikako Hosokawa · Yûko Mochizuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama

Synopsis Tsuma concerns the struggles of a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating on her; to avoid the stigma of a broken marriage, she decides she'll do whatever it takes to keep him with her.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Yôko Sugi · Rentarô Mikuni · Keiju Kobayashi

Synopsis Husband and Wife centers on the problems of young married life that, exacerbated by economic circumstances, can erupt into a full-scale breakup. Ken Uehara and Yoko Sugi star as the young couple forced to live in a rented room in...

Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima

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

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yukiko Todoroki · Seizaburô Kawazu · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Synopsis A man with an ordinary life gets drunk and announces that he will write something for a magazine. After he sobers up, he writes a novella, using himself as a model for the hero.

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

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

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Takahashi

Synopsis A student on vacation meets a teenage dancer who is a member of a league comic company. Both young people fall in love.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Shuntarô Emi · Yuji Hori · Setsuko Horikoshi · Choko Iida

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Synopsis Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Sugi

Synopsis In an all-girls school in postwar Japan, a group of students harass a new girl who's been seen outside school with a boy. The teacher, a young modern woman, scolds them, putting her job in jeopardy as a result.

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Roppa Furukawa · Kingorô Yanagiya · Aiko Mimasu