Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Two sisters search for their missing mother, but the younger sister cannot come to terms with the fact that she was abandoned by her mother as a child...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yûnosuke Itô, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
The film tells the story of a remote village where the lack of food has led to the passing of a law according to which people over the age of seventy must be taken by their relatives to the top of Narayama Mountain to die a natural death. Orin's grandmother, who has reached the age of seventy, is ready to face her fate and...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Hisao Toake
A businessman gets into trouble with his eldest daughter because of her choice in a wife...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Chieko Nakakita, Junji Masuda
A young man and his wife struggle with their loveless marriage as the man has a secret love affair...
Stars: Nadao Kirino, Jun Tatara, Keiko Awaji, Yôko Katsuragi, Shin'ichi Himori
The story of the cruelty of the children of a caring mother who brought them out of the water and mud from the fire of World War II until their early youth.
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Keiko Awaji, Chieko Higashiyama, Koreya Senda, Kentarô Imai
A young student falls in love with a strange girl whom he can only watch from a distance in despair.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kôji Mitsui, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Kusuo Abe
In the 17th century, a group of Hatamanos who served the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan caused countless destructions in the new capital of Odo (today's Tokyo). Their enemy was the "isolation" of the wood whose sole purpose was to protect Odo from the attacks of the Hatamotos.
Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Mutsuko Sakura, Takahiro Tamura, Toshiko Kobayashi, Reiko Hitomi
While a couple is forced to rent their house to the male boss for the summer due to an unpaid debt. The young woman gets fed up with all the thoughts and mentions of her husband being her job and returns to her father's house.
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.
