Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
The movie tells the story of a midwife known as Kiko. She is a bartender who has to choose between marriage and buying a bar for herself. Her family wants her money, her customers want her attention, and she is constantly in debt...
Stars: Gen Shimizu, Yutaka Sada, Yasuzô Ogawa, Haruo Nakajima, Yû Fujiki
After a bombing destroys the store, his family and wife, Riko rebuilds and runs the store out of love, which was briefly stopped by the destruction.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu, Yutaka Sada
After receiving a letter, Yumiko finds out that they will be leaving for America soon. He goes to visit his wife Hiroshi. But after an hour, Hiroshi is killed in a tragic accident in Tokyo and...
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: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sachio Sakai, Gen Shimizu
Nobuko is a noble woman who suffers many tragedies throughout her life. She gets a son after her marriage, but her husband is killed in the war...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takeshi Katô, Michiko Kawa, Isao Hashizume, Jun Tatara
After years of hard work and being harassed by her boyfriend, Fumiko tries to publish her literary work and finally succeeds 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: Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Michiko Kawa, Seijirô Onda, Gorô Sakurai
A married forester is sent to Indochina during World War II to manage the forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife, but he does not keep his promise. After the end of the war, he is found again and their secret relationship continues and...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Yutaka Sada, Senkichi Ômura, Kichijirô Ueda
Tsuta manages Tsuta House in Tokyo; But his business is badly damaged and under debt, and his sister...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôsuke Natsuki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Naoya Kusakawa
A mother who raises her little son alone, goes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family and works in an inn. A boy becomes friends with a girl and...
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: Kamatari Fujiwara, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Chikako Hosokawa, Yuriko Hanabusa, Setsuko Horikoshi
A young woman comes of age and wishes to change her family's mentality towards today's life and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Noriko Honma, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Nakakita, Sadako Sawamura
A teenage girl who witnesses her widowed mother's efforts to maintain the family.
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Takuzô Kumagai, Haruko Sugimura, Chikako Hosokawa
What is the life of a geisha after her beauty fades and she retires? Kim has saved her money and become a wealthy moneylender who spends her days collecting her debts. Even her best friends, her fellow geisha, are in debt. For all of them, the glory of their youth has passed and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Yasuzô Ogawa, Michiko Kawa, Yû Fujiki, Yoshio Inaba
Tashiro happens to see his best friend Sugimoto in a bar near the apartment where his friend's wife's body was found. Although Tashiro is not suspected by the police, he confesses his guilt to his wife and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Haruo Nakajima, Hiroshi Hayashi
The film tells the story of a big family. The main character of the story is "Setsuko Hara", a middle-aged woman who faces a million yen life insurance after the death of her rich husband and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada
A woman gets married, gives birth to a dead child, gets divorced and falls in love with a hotel owner, but considers herself dependent on her success, so she works with a tailor to...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
A widow runs a farm with her young son and her mother-in-law. When the reporter comes to interview him, a relationship is unintentionally formed between them that...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
"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: Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Minoru Chiaki, Yû Fujiki
Kiko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries a writer. However, her husband's problems with his writing and his dissatisfaction with her father create problems for them.
