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.
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
新婚一週間目に夫が消えた! 生きているなら証言して! 連続殺人を包む謎の霧! 鍵を握る三人の女! ! 広告社に勤める憲一は、新婚7日目に金沢へ出張、そのまま消息を絶った。妻の禎子は金沢へ出掛け、単身捜査に乗り出すが、手がかりはつかめなかった。やがて憲一が広告社に勤める前に、巡査の風紀係だったことが判明し、事件はそれに絡んでいる模様。そして意外な事実が明るみになってくる。野村芳太郎監督が、北陸を舞台に人間の孤独と悲しさをスリリングに描いた傑作。
Geisha
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices.
Machiko
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)
