Ryozo Toyoshima

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Japanese comedy film.

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

Una joven que estaba prometida a un hombre al que amaba, se ve obligada a abandonar su aldea para ir a la guerra. Durante la contienda, fue violada y se vio obligada a casarse con su agresor. Aunque permanece a su lado, no ha conseguido perdonarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Japanese comedy film.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

1928. En la idílica isla rural de Shodoshima, la joven, brillante y motivada maestra Hisaki Oishi empieza por primera vez su tarea de profesora a cargo de doce niños de primaria, los inocentes y entrañables veinticuatro ojos que la mirarán en su primer año formativo de escuela. Al principio, los métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos de la nueva maestra y su moderna visión de chica de ciudad provocan cierto recelo en la comunidad pero pronto niños y adultos caen bajo su irresistible encanto. Al cabo de los años, la inminente guerra cambiará sus vidas para siempre.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.