Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Ichirô Shimizu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
Noriko is 27 years old and still lives with her widowed father. Everyone wants to convince her to marry, but she wants to stay at home and take care of her father...
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Tôru Abe, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
An old couple visits their children and grandchildren in the city, and are ignored...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
An old widower arranges the marriage of his only daughter...
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: 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: Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
The head of a traveling theater troupe returns to the small beach town where he left his son, who he thinks is his uncle, and tries to clear things up with him one last time and have a relationship, but his lover becomes jealous...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara
A widow tries to marry her daughter, with the help of three of her late husband's friends...
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Taiji Tonoyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
Two boys observe fasting to persuade their parents to buy a television set...
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: Chishû Ryû, Tomio Aoki, Masao Hayama, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Katô
When two brothers realize that their father is not the most important person in his workplace, they start to have a bad temper...
Stars: Shin'ichi Himori, Chishû Ryû, Tomio Aoki, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Masao Hayama
A widow sends her son away for a better education. Years later, he meets him, and finds out that the boy has become a poor school teacher with a wife and a son...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Akira Takarada
The family of an elderly man who owns a small sake brewery is worried about his financial situation and health after they discover that he has been meeting an elderly lover from his teenage years...
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: Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chishû Ryû, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Eiko Takamatsu
In post-war Japan, a man takes a lost boy with him to the city. No one wants to take him into their home even for one night until a wicked widow accepts this responsibility and...
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Hisao Toake, Eijirô Yanagi
A childless middle-aged married couple faces a marital crisis...
Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Tomio Aoki, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Kiyoshi Aono
The lover of a kabuki actor out of jealousy hatches a plan to bring down her lover's son...
Stars: Shin'ichi Himori, Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Mitsuko Mito, Ken'ichi Miyajima
Shohei Horikawa, a poor school teacher, is struggling to raise his son Ryuhei, with no capital or prospects for the future...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Noriko Sengoku, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is not happy living with Mimura, an unemployed engineer who is always drinking. She used to be in love with Hiroshi, but after Hiroshi's migration to France, their love was forgotten. Now he is back 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: Fumiko Okamura, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Toshiaki Konoe, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
When the father and head of the Toda family dies, his widow discovers that he has left nothing but debts and married children who are unable to support him, except for their most thoughtful son who has just returned from China...
