A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years,...

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

A 1950 film by 大曾根辰夫.

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi...

1953 Japanese movie