Kan Takami

母のおもかげ

Hiroshi Shimizu

Chikage Awashima, Jun Negami

雁

Shiro Toyoda

Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Lightning

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

あにいもうと

Mikio Naruse

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

静かなる決闘

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.