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.

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.

1934 film by Hiroshi Shimizu

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

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

「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。

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.

1945年，日军在中国华北的战线已处于崩溃的边缘。兵荒马乱之时，慰安妇秋子从慰安部队逃了出来。秋子遇上了正直的军医关三郎，关三郎在冥冥之中帮助了秋子，秋子也爱上了关三郎，就这样两人在破庙里的夜来香下开始风花雪月。一晚，风花雪月过后，空袭开始了，空袭过后关三郎再也找寻不到秋子。
一晃5年过去了，关三郎去了神户的制药公司上班并寄居在昔日部下小田切利夫的家中。利夫帮自己的恋人千代的哥哥做黑市生意，千代的表哥也想拉关三郎下水，但关三郎并不同意，只是恳求其帮助他寻找秋子。可就在恍惚之中，关三郎由于战争留下的旧伤复发导致失明，失明后的关三郎辞去了工作灰心丧气。
一日，关三郎在西餐厅里午餐，就在这时秋子出现了，秋子发现关三郎的眼睛看不见了。她尾随关三郎，此时《李香兰》的夜来香娓娓响起，秋子终于忍不住跑过去抱住关三郎并与其亲亲我我，可关三郎受不了这么刺激的事情所以当场昏倒。
秋子把昏倒的关三郎抬到了自己的家中。关三郎醒后两个昔日的恋人一番叙旧后，关三郎表示要离开，因为眼睛看不见所以不想给秋子添麻烦，但秋子不从，并发誓要治好关三郎的眼睛。为了医药费秋子在夜幕下出卖自己的肉体，可她却发现关三郎却失踪了。
关三郎不想拖累秋子所以返回了小田切家，可此时他却得知利夫因为做黑市生意被逮捕了，保释金要10万元。为了昔日的部下，关三郎找到了千代的表哥龟山借钱，龟山说只有三郎同意一起做黑市生意才会借给他钱，于是三郎把良心卖给了龟山。
但龟山不是什么好人，他对利夫说他是出于好心自己掏钱把三郎保释出来的，所以要利夫帮其去兵库车站参与走私活动，得知此事的三郎前去阻止，却被疾驰而来的火车吞噬了，轨道上只留下散落一地的夜来香，而毫不知情的秋子正打开窗户等待着三郎的归来。

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.

凄艶、京マチ子の女剣劇!
姉とは知らず恋敵と狙う純情の歌姫、乙羽信子!
川端康成の名作から生まれた、恋と復讐の激情巨編!
浅草フォリーズの人気者・鮎川マキは、浅草の興行ブローカーの中根から借りた金の言い訳に、愛人の島吉に行って貰った。
もともとマキが目当ての中根は乾分に命じて島吉をおどかし、浅草から追い出そうとしたが、島吉は逆に乾分の一人、堀を刺してしまった。
そして、必ず迎えに来るとマキにいい残して島吉は浅草を去った。
一年後、島吉は浅草へ舞い戻って来た。
ある夜、島吉は一人の田舎娘を救った。
が、彼女は中根の養女の女剣劇、紅龍子で、島吉をおびき出す罠だった……。
監督:久松静児 脚本:成澤昌茂 原作:川端康成
出演:京 マチ子 乙羽信子 斎藤紫香 根上 淳
1952年/日本/本編87分/モノクロ/片面1層/日本語Dolby Digital モノラル/4:3(スタンダードサイズ)

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

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.

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.