Stars: Kokuten Kôdô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
A family chooses a marriage for their daughter Noriko, but surprisingly, she has plans of her own...
Stars: Hideyo Amamoto, Chieko Naniwa, Toshio Takahara, Rei Miura, Nijiko Kiyokawa
A teacher named Hisako Oishi tries to encourage the students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, but he knows that most of them will be killed in the war...
Stars: Tôru Abe, Takako Irie, Chieko Nakakita, Fumie Kitahara, Fumiko Okamura
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story. Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke ...
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Toshio Shimamura, Nobuo Takagi, Toshio Hosokawa
A pregnant woman survives a failed double suicide. She has a child from a man who committed suicide with her and is no longer alive.
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Kôji Mitsui, Mutsuko Sakura, Takashi Miki, Takahiro Tamura
This movie tells the story of the life of a couple who are guardians of a lighthouse.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Yoshi Katô, Tôru Abe, Torahiko Hamada, Haruko Chichibu
A young man decides to become a famous warrior and causes trouble for his tribe.
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Tôru Abe, Yôko Katsuragi, Eitarô Ozawa, Chieko Higashiyama
A couple tries to take advantage of an artist and his family, but his kind nature causes problems in their plan...
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Shôzô Suzuki, Takashi Miki, Isao Suenaga, Nobuo Takagi
Before going to his new job in Hokkaido, Keizo returns to visit his family in his hometown. There, he meets Fuyoko, his teenage love, now a young widow.
Stars: Shirô Ôsaka, Toyo Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kappei Matsumoto, Toshinosuke Nagao
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hirokos sisters husband Kono, who also sent Hirokos fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during t... Read all
Stars: Kokuten Kôdô, Eitarô Ozawa, Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Chichibu
A girl returns home after years of running away, but she is scandalized when it is revealed that she is a dancer.
Stars: Junji Masuda, Chieko Higashiyama, Shôzô Suzuki, Yoshindo Yamaji, Kuniko Igawa
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 festival.
