Yasumi Hara

日の果て

Satsuo Yamamoto

Koji Tsuruta, Yasumi Hara

Based on Philippines war experiences. Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada. Uji takes a sharpshooter called Takagi and tracks him. At first Uji cannot forgive Hanada but as Uji is isolated from the main force he too starts to think of desertion.

雲ながるる果てに

Miyoji Ieki

Koji Tsuruta, Isao Kimura

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

嵐の中の母

Kiyoshi Saeki

Yaeko Mizutani, Hatae Kishi

ひろしま

Hideo Sekigawa

Isuzu Yamada, Eiji Okada

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.

ペン偽らず　暴力の街

Satsuo Yamamoto

Kenzo Asada, Tōru Abe

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

ひめゆりの塔

Tadashi Imai

Keiko Tsushima, Eiji Okada

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声

Hideo Sekigawa

Hajime Izu, Yasumi Hara

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.

西住戦車長伝

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

怒りの街

Mikio Naruse

Jūkichi Uno, Yasumi Hara

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.

愛すればこそ

Tadashi Imai, Satsuo Yamamoto

Nobuko Otowa, Yoshiko Machida

Фильм состоит из трёх новелл. Томико, героиня первой новеллы «Цветочница» (режиссёр Кодзабуро Ёсимура),— маленькая девочка, на плечи которой непосильным бременем легли заботы о семье. Отец Тамико уже давно не может найти себе работу, старшая сестра безнадёжно больна — вряд ли ей удасться поняться на ноги. Чтобы прокормить родных, Томико с утра до поздней ночи бегает по городу и продаёт цветы… Вторая новелла (реж. Тадаси Имаи) тоже рисует быт бедняков. Незнакомая девушка принесла молодому Кавано письмо от его матери. Оказывается, девушку зовут Кунико, она очень трудолюбивая, но семья её умирает от голода. Поэтому мать решила отправить Кунико к сыну, чтобы тот женился на ней. Новелла так и называется «Неожиданная невеста». Особый интерес представляет третья новелла, которая дала название всему фильму: «Когда любишь» (реж. Сацуо Ямамото). Здесь показана семья молодого борца за мир.

象を喰った連中

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Chishū Ryū, Shinichi Himori

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...

私は貝になりたい

Yoshihiko Okamoto

Frankie Sakai, Mutsuko Sakura

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

わが恋せし乙女

Keisuke Kinoshita

Yasumi Hara, Chieko Higashiyama

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.

陸軍

Keisuke Kinoshita

Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

悲しき口笛

Miyoji Ieki

Hibari Misora, Ichirō Sugai

太陽のない街

Satsuo Yamamoto

Sumiko Hidaka, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

По мотивам романа пролетарского писателя Сунао Токунага. История о длительной забастовке рабочих крупной типографии, о стойкости забастовщиков, которую не смогли сломить ни голод, ни насилие. Героиня этой истории активно участвует в борьбе своих коллег против увольнений, угнетения и полицейского произвола.