Screenplay: Fumiko Hayashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Mitsuko Miura · Kyôko Kagawa · Chieko Murata

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kichijiro Ueda · Goro Kawabe · Chizuru Kitagawa

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Sumiko Kurishima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Mitsugu Fujii · Fumio Hayashi

Plot Story about a little boy who, after his widowed mother decides to remarry, is shuffled about, from relative to relative.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Toshirô Mifune · Haruo Tanaka · Jun Tatara

Plot A young Japanese woman, widowed in the Second World War, has her young son to raise but can find nothing else to live for. Grief for her lost husband and...