Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful ...

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her ...

The story of five sisters.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, ...

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her ...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband’s co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and ...

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine ...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband’s young and flirtatious cousin ...

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer ...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director’s Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and ...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.