Homare Suguro

駆逐艦雪風

Tatsuo Yamada

Isamu Nagato, Shima Iwashita

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

下町の太陽

Yoji Yamada

Chieko Baisho, Homare Suguro

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

None But the Brave

Frank Sinatra

Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Katō

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

大根と人参

Minoru Shibuya

Chishū Ryū, Nobuko Otowa

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

続 拝啓天皇陛下様

Yoshitaro Nomura

Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kanbi Fujiyama

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.

にっぽんぱらだいす

Yoichi Maeda

Yoshiko Kayama, Hoki Tokuda

Japanese comedy film.

ハイウェイの王様

Hirokazu Ichimura

Kyoko Aoi, Mariko Kaga

二十一歳の父

Noboru Nakamura

Homare Suguro, Kei Yamamoto

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.