Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Toshiko Kobayashi · Masayuki Mori · Sadako Sawamura

Plot In a wealthy family, a mother and her grown-up children are a happy and colourful group people, each with their own dreams and aspirations. But these are ultimately quashed by...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Tadao Takashima · Ken Mitsuda · Akiko Tamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Teiji Takahashi · Takahiro Tamura

Plot Before heading to his new work location in Hokkaido, Keizo goes back to his hometown to visit his family. There, he meets Fuyuko, his teenage sweetheart. She has turn into...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Plot Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yasumi Hara · Chieko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Junji Soneda

Plot A baby girl is left at the doorsteps of a ranch just before her father jumps to his death. Named Yoshiko, she's raised by this ranching family, and forges a...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mariko Okada · Teruo Yoshida · Masakazu Tamura · Norihei Miki

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ken Uehara · Fumiko Katsuragi · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yasumi Hara

Plot A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation's troops. Kinoshita's rural drama was made to promote the war...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiji Sada · Isamu Kosugi · Toyo Takahashi

Plot A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mariko Kaga · Kinuyo Tanaka

Plot A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Hideko Takamine · Ken Tanaka · Shinobu Otake

Plot Parents campaign to change the law for families who have suffered from violent crime, after their son is murdered.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Hideo Fujino · Tokiko Hada · Masao Hayama

Plot A business man runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yôko Katsuragi · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yasumi Hara · Shin'ichi Himori · Michiyo Kogure · Mitsuko Mito

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Go Kato · Hitoshi Ueki · Reiko Ohara · Yoko Shinoyama

Plot A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Sadako Sawamura · Noriko Arita · Akira Ishihama

Plot A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mariko Okada · Bunta Sugawara · Eiji Okada · Kinuyo Tanaka

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Chishu Ryu · Teruko Kishi · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Katsuragi

Plot A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they are replacing.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mieko Takamine · Hideko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Yoshiko Kuga · Chieko Baisho

Plot Yoshio Nonaka (Keiji Sada), un soldado recién desmovilizado, vuelve a Japón encontrando Tokyo destruido, su casa inclusive. Felizmente da con su familia, que había huido al campo: allí obtendrá trabajo...