Masami Taura

東京暮色

Yasujirō Ozu

Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

早春

Yasujirō Ozu

Chikage Awashima, Ryō Ikebe

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

土砂降り

Noboru Nakamura

Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

日本の悲劇

Keisuke Kinoshita

Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

娘三羽烏

Toshimasa Hozumi

Minoru Oki, Michiko Saga

Japanese romantic comedy film.

この広い空のどこかに

Masaki Kobayashi

Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

女の園

Keisuke Kinoshita

Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

遠い雲

Keisuke Kinoshita

Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

猟銃

Heinosuke Gosho

Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

正義派

Minoru Shibuya

Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

愛と智恵の輪

Yoshiro Kawazu

Hitomi Nozoe, Masami Taura

伊豆の踊子

Yoshiro Kawazu

Haruko Wanibuchi, Masahiko Tsugawa

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

女の一生

Noboru Nakamura

Chikage Awashima, Masami Taura

Экранизация романа Юдзо Ямамото, хорошо известного в нашей стране, повествует о трудной судьбе матери-одиночки в довоенной Японии.

燃ゆる限り

Kenkichi Hara

Yôko Katsuragi, Akihiko Katayama

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.

奥様多忙

Toshimasa Hozumi

Shirō Ōsaka, Machiko Mizuhara

愛情会議

Teruo Hagiyama

Minoru Oki, Shinobu Asaji

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their fortunes, but returns to Shibuya, swindled and sober.