二战期间，为了鼓舞驻军中国的士兵们的士气，日本军方从各部队集结了21个年轻士兵，组成野战军乐队，并任命园田少尉（佐分利信 饰）担当教官之职。园田要在三个月内将他们训练成一群熟练掌握乐器的优秀乐手。然而他们其中有近半数的人根本没有任何音乐基础，为此园田将他们分为两组，有基础的士兵和新手互帮互助。学习的过程十分痛苦，对音乐一窍不通的佐久间（佐野周二 饰）更时常和他的“老师”须磨发生争吵…… 日本二战期间的国策电影，李香兰亦在片中出演角色。

1951 film

Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

1942 film by Yasujirō Ozu

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A former aristocratic family faces financial hardship and their daughter is introduced to a nice man in the auto repair business, the hope being that a marriage might be of economic assistance to the family. The daughter's family finds it hard to accept this kind of idea and the young man is uncomfortable with the difference in their social standing. However, everything works out in the end and a happy marriage takes place.