The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

1960 film by Tomu Uchida

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.

「風の中の子供」に続く坪田譲治の“善太と三平”ものの映画化作品。監督は前作同様に天才・清水宏である。主人公の善太・三平の兄弟とその家族は、役名はもちろん配役まで前作と同じ。「風の中の子供」は夏休みの間だけの話であったが、本作品は題名の示す通り2部から成る1年間の物語である。前編では、仲間の金太郎の父に借金をした病気の父親を助けるため、善太と三平がけなげに働くが、そのかいもなく父が死に至るまで。後編では祖父母のもとに引きとられた善太・三平と彼らの仲間・金太郎の友情が描かれる。主人公の兄弟を演ずる葉山正雄と爆弾小僧が素晴らしく、また詩情を漂わせた撮影も美しい佳編。

While Fumiko was buying at cosmetic store, she met Mr and Mrs Kawada. As Mr Kawada is too kind to Mrs Fumiko, both women scrambled for the only one handkerchief. Finally their husbands have to duel...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment.

1950 film by Akira Kurosawa