Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.

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

At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised pregnancy. Seiu learns the truth and accepts Masako and the unborn child, embracing his roles as husband and father. He also reforms a troubled youth at his institution. In a climactic speech, Seiu inspires his students with resilience and love.

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive illusions will be shattered by the ruthless realities of money and power.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda

1948 Japanese drama film.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

洋裁店“ナルシス”を経営する早川千鶴子は、その晩、未知の青年、久里目保険統計研究所員の肩書をもつ能瀬精一郎の訪問を受けた。能瀬は、千鶴子が定期を拾って届けた学生の兄で、その礼に来たのだ。が千鶴子は、弟が定期を故意に落し、拾った人が届けてくれ、相手が女性であればそれを縁に交際を始める魂胆だったという能瀬の言葉にびっくり。更に彼が語る弟の友人の成功談、失敗談に笑い転げる。しかも千鶴子は定期遊びに成功した青年を知っていた。友人の大谷吟子が主の銀座はギン洋裁店に働く小出がそれである。美男子の小出は吟子の若い燕となっている。しかし彼は吟子に隠れて久里目財閥の娘鳥子と交際、それをまたヨタ者三宅に感づかれ事毎にユスられている。吟子には、また大久保という年輩のパトロンがいて、ある夜二人は待合に泊った。すると小出は早速、鳥子と熱海に出かける。ところが翌朝、銀座の火事で吟子の店は焼けなかったが水浸し。店にかけつけるとヨタ者が店を見張っていた御礼を寄越せとユスリに来る。三宅が相手になるが、三宅は仲間らしく、折から千鶴子と駈けつけた能瀬が、これを追払う。翌日、能瀬は千鶴子の突然の訪問を受け、二人の間に心が通い合う。が、その能瀬は、久里目所長から姪の鳥子の行状調査を頼まれ、これを私立探偵の下うけみたいだと怒って研究所を飛出す。一方、吟子は店を建直すが、小出の行状を知り、これを機に小出とも大久保とも別れ再出発の決心をする。その夜、能瀬は火事の一件でヨタ者の恨みを買い三宅らに挑戦され、暗い街灯の下で死闘を続ける。警官の助けで難を逃れるが、彼もまた自分の行動を顧み、田舎へ帰り再生の決心を固める。これを能瀬に聞いた千鶴子は、彼に尊敬の念を覚える。能瀬が帰る日、街灯の下で彼を見送る千鶴子は、いつまでも待っていると告げた。

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines 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.

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they encounter numerous obstacles due to their caste affiliation. Together with other "outcasts," the brothers take up the fight for their human rights.

1950 film by Satsuo Yamamoto

一椀の飯を盗んだために十九年間の牢獄生活を送らなければならなかった岩吉は、大政奉還の大赦令により出獄したが、世間は彼に冷たかった。そして危く再び悪に走ろうとしたときミリエル司教は、彼に暖い手をのべ、無限の神の愛を教えた。天刑病として人々に忌み嫌われている男を救ったことから、岩吉は、改良絣の織機の操作を伝授され、事業と徳行を以って知られる福岡県第三区長、松野栄一として更生したのも暫くのことで、自分の前名岩吉の名を負って重罪裁判にかけられる男のいるのを知ると、苦悶したが、ミリエル司教の教えを思い出して自ら名乗り出て罪に服することになった。しかし唯一の心がかりは、転落の女お絹と、彼女に救ってやると約束したその娘小雪のことであった。折しも護送船が難破したのに紛れて脱出、小雪を無頼漢長吉の手から救い出して、何処へともなく姿を消して行った。月日は流れた。

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.