Mitsuyo Mizushima

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who is already nineteen years old, works in a clothing store, the second daughter Natsuko works in a restaurant, a schoolboy Akio is studying carpentry, and even the youngest Fuyuko helps her mother by working as a nanny in a neighboring house. Nearby lives a widowed electrician Tokuji Yamada with two boys - Norio and Tatsuo. He has a widowed daughter, Sakiko, who, along with a small child, ran away from home, as she is going through hard times. At Haruko's suggestion, Mitsu and Tokuji get married, and it would seem that happiness smiles on their new family, but it turned out to be short-lived…

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after the reward money.

Un soldat démobilisé devient ouvrier à la journée dans une équipe de construction de routes, et sa femme travaille pour augmenter leurs revenus. Leur modeste rêve est de voir grandir leur fils et d'être heureux en famille.

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy manner.

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices.

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Une semaine après le mariage de Teiko Uhara, son mari, Kenichi, part pour un court voyage d'affaires et ne revient jamais. Teiko traverse le Japon à sa recherche, et découvre en chemin des faits surprenants sur le passé de son mari. Avec seulement une paire de vieilles photographies parmi ses affaires pour se débrouiller, Teiko essaie de comprendre ce qui lui est arrivé.