Kansho Yoshii

第五列の恐怖

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Koji Nakata, Yukiko Todoroki

路傍の石

Tomotaka Tasaka

Akihiko Katayama, Reizaburô Yamamoto

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

暖流

Yasuzō Masumura

Jun Negami, Hitomi Nozoe

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

潜水艦１号

Masamitsu Igayama

Koji Nakata, Shirô Izome

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.