During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.

Family of Love

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.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.

The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas.

明治27年（1894年）7月に起こった豊島沖海戦によって日清両国の緊張は頂点に達し、双方とも8月1日に宣戦を布告。近代化を進めていた日本と大国の清との戦いは日本側の有利で進むが、両国だけの問題ではすまず、列強は戦争の結果に干渉した。

（東京篇）川北小六は新聞広告からある邸の離れに同居するようになった。その家は母一人娘一人の静かな生活だったが、小六はその令嬢照子と相愛の仲になった。小六は大阪の川北組のせがれで、父親の佐吉は同じ大阪で指折りの新興成金小牧雄造と、政治的の話合いで、小六に想いをよせうるさくつきまとう娘蘭子のために、頃句を結婚させる親同志の約束が出来ていた。小六はまたその縁談をきらって東京に逃げてきた訳だったが佐吉は、破産一歩手前にある川北組のためにも、結婚を承知してくれと頼むのだった。今百五十万円の金を必要とする川北組のために照子は邸を抵当に、独断で運悪く小六を蘭子の恋敵とねたむ小牧商事の支配人津川に頼んだため、怪しげな契約書を手交わしたが、小六に見破られた。小六は小切手を返そうと家にとって返した時は、いまではならず者になっている照子の実父東吉に盗み去られていた。それが巡り巡って東吉の手からまた元の津川の手に無条件で握られてしまったのだ。その小切手故に照子親娘は落ちぶれていった。津川の魔手はその病に伏した母を抱え、就職にあせる照子へと延ばされていた。しかも恋に狂った蘭子の中傷で、小六は照子の純潔を疑いある雨の夜大阪に旅立ってしまった。（大阪篇）病気の母を女中に託し、照子は単身小六の誤解をとくために、後を追った。しかしすでに川北組は破産し、街で偶然出会った蘭子の元で小六が静養しているときき、案内されるまま小六に再会することは出来たが照子は、誤解をはらすどころか、すでに二人の心の遠いへだたりを感ずるのだった。東京にもどった照子に好色の津川は、しつような魔の手をゆるめなかった。美術展で照子がモデルになった絵が入選したが、津川の迫害はそこまでも延び、各新聞は桃色異聞として書きたてた。留置所で再会した小六と照子はその足で臨終の母のもとにいったが、何も知らぬ母は息のある内にと無理じいに二人に杯事をさせるのだ。小六に既に結婚の意志のないことを知る照子にとっては、苦しい真似ごとだった。母も死んだ－－。絶望のどん底で照子には進むべき道は、死以外になかった。蘭子に小六をゆずって、恨み重なる津川にナイフをしのばせ迫っていった。感ずいた小六が中にわって入り大乱闘になった。そのすきに照子より先に津川に踊りかかったのは父の東吉だった。バッサリと倒れる津川、東吉は「娘を頼みます」と心のこりの一言を小六に警官にひかれていった。小六と照子の心は、その東吉の言葉に再び結ばれることが出来たのだ。

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and gives all his tenderness to his little daughter, who was born after his return. The boy sees all the injustice of his father and, offended, leaves home. The father realized that he was wrong, that he was guilty before his son. The mother finds the boy and brings him home. The father and the son become friends from that day on.