Screenplay: Keita Genji

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kenji Sugawara · Keizo Kawasaki · Sadako Sawamura

Plot Early Masumura is contemporary with late Douglas Sirk -- both harnessed garish fifties modernism for a scathing, full-color portrait of ambition in the new middle class. In Blue Sky Maiden,...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eiji Funakoshi · Seiji Miyaguchi

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Ken Takakura · Naoko Kubo · Emi Ito · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Sô Yamamura · Ayako Wakao · Junko Kano · Mako Sanjô

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Masahisa Sunohara

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Toshiyuki Ichimura · Niwa Saito · Sachiko Hidari

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Ken Takakura · Terumi Hoshi · Yûnosuke Itô · Masao Mishima

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Akira Takarada · Shûji Sano

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Keiko Tsushima · Yuko Minami · Hideo Hongô

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ineko Arima · Hajime Izu · Mayuri Mokusho

Plot Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think...