Kôzô Kubo

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.

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.

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

美空ひばりの松竹映画初出演作。唄と踊りで綴る奇想天外！ファンタジーオペレッタ！！ ひばりがかわいらしい河童ブギの少女に扮し注目を浴びた。佐々木康監督も「この子は天才だ！」とその才能に驚嘆。夢の不夜城に咲く恋と河童と乙姫様のロマンス。竜宮城を舞台に、松竹の歌姫が総出演して華を競う、歌と踊りと笑いで綴る一大海底グランドショウ。