Weed with Flowers

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

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 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.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

A more than pleasant, funny and touching short(ened) burlesque comedy of young Y. Ozu. Two friends provide shelter to an orphan girl they have accidentally knocked down.

1951 film