Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

1955 film by Mikio Naruse

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

2004 film directed by Nobuhiro Doi

2021 film directed by Nobuhiro Doi

2021 film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1951 film by Mikio Naruse

1977 film by Shirō Moritani

2007 film by Joji Matsuoka

火红的第五乐章 文/易鹰、楠 来源——《电影故事》 一九七三年三月，日本的一个具有代表性的交响乐团成立十六年之际，作为主管单位的电视广播公司突然宣布要断绝对乐团的资助。同年六月，公司不顾乐团成员的要求和社会各界舆论，解散了资助财团，解雇了全体团员。面对这一困境，尽管乐团成员向财团进行了斗争，但仍一无所获，交响乐团陷入了困境。 交响乐团原指挥堂本为首的一批团员认为；只有放弃斗争，另找一个资助财团，才能保存乐团继续搞艺术。而以仲本，吉田、川原、野间等为首的大部分团员则认为，只要坚持斗争，走向民间，就能真正保持住音乐艺术，继续为艺术而献身。乐团分裂了，留下来的成员在以“和市民在一起”为口号，自己经营管理，继续演出。 之后，东洋广播公司收回了乐团演出场所，乐团又陷入了经济危机，致使仲本先生卖掉自己的小汽车以解决经费问题，但无济于事。面对这一严峻的现实，乐团成员忧心忡忡。 进乐团才两年的小提琴手桦泽升是一个很有才华的年轻艺术家，在困难面前，他开始退缩了。这时，他的女同学伸子来到了他的身旁。伸子从艺术学校毕业后，一直在一个仅有十二名学生的山区分校教孩子们学音乐。伸子对桦泽升说:“人们说命运靠自己去掌握。命运却老是作弄我，把我带到相反的方向。得靠毅力，我认为前途得由我们自己去选择。”从而在精神上给了桦泽升以鼓励。她还邀请桦泽升去自己的故乡驹马根市演出，她亲自和当地的一批音乐爱好者们积极地为该乐团来演出进行筹备工作。但是事情并非一帆风顺。 首先，东洋广播公司趁乐团去外地作小型巡回演出的时侯，用铁丝网封死了乐团驻地的所有窗户，企图逼迫他们离去。紧接着乐团的老团员大提琴手仲本先生因劳累过度，不幸病逝。这一切都未能使大家退缩，然而，祸不单行。正当乐团积极筹备秋季公演的时侯，莫斯科通知该乐团，原订答应担任秋季公演的苏联指挥赫恰都梁因病不能赴约。这一沉重的打击，使得乐团一筹莫展。 在这次打击面前，桦泽升又一次陷入无以自拔的困惑之中。一方面他想为艺术献身，另一方面又被这无穷尽的艰难所折磨。他开始沉缅于酗酒之中，这时，伸子又再一次来到他的身边，并且向桦泽升倾诉了自己的爱情，鼓励他要顽强奋斗。 老天不负有心人。在乐团最困难的时刻，乐团的创始人之一，现任东京都乐团的日本著名指挥渡边晓雄，向他们伸出了援助的手，答应前来担任指挥。由于广大市民的协助，秋季巡回公演终于获得圆满成功。桦泽升和伸子这一对有情人也成了眷属。 影片以德伏夏克的《新世界交响曲》贯串全剧，还演出了其他古典派音乐家的不少优秀作品。 解说——关于《火红的第五乐章》片名 看了日本影片《火红的第五乐章》，以后，也许有些观众要产生疑问，德伏夏克所作的《新世界交响曲》(贯串全片的乐曲)，只有四个乐章，怎么会有第五乐章呢?答案是；这个音乐爱好者交响乐团在缺乏人力、财力的逆境下，全体团员同心协力，在市民们的支持下，抵住了资助财团的压力，克服自身精神上的种种弱点，终于获得了演出的成功。它告诉人们，任何人在种种艰难险阻面前，只要敢于奋斗，和人民站在一起，就一定能取得胜利。这个故事的本身，就是交响乐团的成员为大家谱写出的火红的第五乐章。

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1991 film by Takeshi Kitano

2003 film directed by Satoshi Kon

2001 Japanese anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

2003 Japanese film by Takeshi Kitano

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

1985 film by Yoshimitsu Morita

On the Mongolian plains, a young girl, Puujee, helps her herder family with their animals. Chronicling the everyday life of Puujee's family, this documentary offers a fascinating look at Mongolian nomadic culture, which is verging on extinction. Taught to ride horses at an early age and wise beyond her years, the 6-year-old Puujee contributes to the family livelihood with her uncanny ability to tame wild horses.