Naoyuki Hatta

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Based on a Hayashi Fumiko story: a fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because he feels sorry for her, a child born out of wedlock. Sumi (Natsukawa), one of Masaki’s colleagues and who is secretly in love with him, strongly disagrees with him about Keiko. Then Sumi hears a rumor that Keiko is pregnant with Masaki's child . . . .