Stars: Chieko Nakakita, Eitarô Ozawa, Hideko Takamine, Kumeko Urabe, Osamu Maruyama
Ose, a poor and weak mother, has four children from four different men, three girls and one boy. Kyoko's youngest daughter, who is a tour guide, is the only child who decides to escape from these harsh conditions and...
Stars: Ichirô Shimizu, Fumiko Okamura, Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Binnosuke Nagao
A man who has just returned from World War II is looking for his poor wife, who has been forced to spend a night in prostitution to pay for her child's hospital bills. . .
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Taiji Tonoyama, Shin'ichi Himori, Fumiko Okamura, Masao Shimizu
After Japan's defeat in the war, now the wealthy family with the principle and culture of Enjo must give away all their property.
Stars: Binnosuke Nagao, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Bontarô Miake, Chieko Murata, Akiko Kazami
The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and occurrences and actualities...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Manabu Morita, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Eighteenth century China. The emperor mourns his wife. The Ying family wants to introduce a wife to the emperor in order to increase their influence on the court. General Anne Lushan prepares a distant relative who works in the kitchen to be introduced to the emperor. The emperor falls in love with her and...
Stars: Mariko Taka, Ritsuo Sawa, Akira Ishihama, Chieko Murata, Masayoshi Nogami
Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through the building and finally slaying his mothers sister...
