Stars: Nobuo Kaneko, Chieko Nakakita, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Hisao Toake
A businessman named Ogata works with his son Shoichi and lives peacefully with his wives Yasuko and Kikoko. Shuichi has a secret relationship with another woman and there is no love in their life together. Yasuko has devoted her whole life to her family, but Ogata only got married because of her younger sister's death and...
Stars: Bokuzen Hidari, Tôru Abe, Shirô Ôsaka, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to a cheating husband with low self-esteem, combines her family life with her career as a poet. The beginning of his successful literary career at the same time as divorce and...
Stars: Yukiko Shimazaki, Sayuri Tanima, Chieko Nakakita, Ichirô Shimizu, Setsuko Hara
Michiko moved to Osaka with her husband two years ago. She cooks, washes and cleans the house all day. All her wishes and dreams have disappeared five years ago and after her marriage and...
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku, Haruko Toyama
After a battle with rival gangsters, a petty gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor. The doctor diagnosed the man with tuberculosis and convinced him to treat him. The two enjoy their friendship until the man's ex-boss is released from prison...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma, Michiko Kawa
"Kyoko" and her husband plan to establish a coffee shop. But little by little, he approaches the bank employee from whom he intends to take a loan and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Akira Tani, Noriko Honma, Akio Kusama, Takuzô Kumagai
During the spring, Ganjura travels to the city to sell his wood to others and...
Stars: Junji Masuda, Chishû Ryû, Miki Odagiri, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane
Mukichi is a widowed father of three daughters who has been living with them in a temple since the war. All three girls get involved in various complicated relationships. Sisters and their dependent men...
Stars: Tamlyn Tomita, Jason Scott Lee, Yûki Kudô, Traci Toguchi, Glenn Cannon
Riyo marries a man more than twice her age. She is devastated and labors in the sugar cane field. At the end she is able to love her husband.
