Engineer
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
En una ciudad provinciana, un profesor viudo lleva una vida modesta en compañía de su único hijo. Cuando en un viaje escolar, un alumno se ahoga en un lago, él asume la responsabilidad del accidente y dimite. Decide entonces abandonar la ciudad y trasladarse a su pueblo natal. Durante el viaje, padre e hijo discuten sobre el futuro y entre ellos se establece una relación al mismo tiempo cercana y distante. Un día el padre le anuncia que tiene la intención de mandarlo a estudiar a un internado. Años más tarde, el padre trabaja en Tokio y el hijo es maestro. En un encuentro el hijo le anuncia al padre que se va a la guerra.
Chinese Army soldier
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
Nozawa
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
