Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.

The story of five sisters.

他の娘と結婚した無情な男の新居に放火した女、前科11犯の窃盗犯、年若い夫を殺して乳幼児を抱えた女など、女子刑務所囚人たちの様々な生態を描き、その矯正補導を主題とした異色の社会派ドラマ。木暮・久我・岡田・香川らが女囚人を好演。

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

An omnibus of 13 stories singing the praises of Japanese patriotism during wartime, set on the frontlines and back home.

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.

SINCERE HEART (1953, aka MAGOKORO) was Masaki Kobayashi's second film as a director -- but as with his first, YOUTH OF THE SON, it is something of a hybrid work, influenced heavily by his longtime mentor Keisuke Kinoshita, who wrote the screenplay. The resulting film is a deeply passionate and sentimental drama about a young student (Akira Inshihama) who falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

四年过去了，这个有三十三名女学生及七名男学生的英国文学系，即将迎来毕业。毕业典礼结束后，忘记东西的野坂，造访了美枝子的家。美枝子的母亲雪子，与田岛离婚后，在银座开了一家酒吧。那天夜里，野坂与喝得烂醉的美枝子，亲吻了一下，就告别了。
毕业后的野坂在电视台工作；立志当作家的美枝子则专心于创作；和子与浅沼在和子叔父矢崎经营的贸易公司上班，每天都很忙碌，小组却有了大麻烦。与浅沼同居的木村荣子怀了孕，浅沼隐瞒了婚姻，才进的公司，现在准备去美国留学，如果荣子怀孕的事传出去，那就会功亏一篑。公司派和子请野坂冒充新生儿的父亲。夜里，和子把野坂叫到家中。和子的妹妹、早熟的久美子，看出了他们之间的微妙感情。
在出版社工作的向井，推荐了美枝子的两部作品，应募文学新人奖。一天，在母亲的酒吧里，美枝子意外遇到了和子的叔父矢崎，他说病中的妻子信子很想见见雪子她们母女，这番话令美枝子大感意外，毕竟他们是不曾认识的人。
几天后，浅沼与荣子迎来了新的生命，在全部都是朋友参加的婚礼上，大家为荣子诞下一子而高兴。
美枝子应募的最品，顺利入围了新人奖。既开心又有些不安的美枝子，想将心中对野坂的感觉全部说出时，野坂突然宣布与和子立下了婚约。
日活酒店里召开的新人奖获奖仪式上，美枝子获得了新人奖，并用幽默地语言祝福了即将结婚的野坂与和子：“我并不想着要结婚什么的，但从很久以前，我就很想在野坂的身体上，拼命地咬上几口。祝你俩幸福”。坐席间，大家笑作一团，美枝子的眼中泛着泪水，像是闪烁着金色光芒的海洋。

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hiroko's sister's husband Kono, who also sent Hiroko's fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during the war. Yamaoka has just been freed, but is seriously ill from his time in prison.

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning, many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them to avenge their father's death. The perpetrators of their father's demise see the siblings practicing, and so enlist the help of another revered swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, giving the latter an excuse to battle Miyamoto.