Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.
Story of Jiro
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.
History film directed by Tomu Uchida.
いわゆる「国策映画」のひとつではあるが、ドキュメンタリータッチで制作された本作は、派手な戦闘場面もなく、部隊がひたすら移動する様を淡々と描いている。現在見ることができるのは、GHQに接収され後に返還されたものだが、オリジナルに比べ30分近く欠落している。第二分隊長の玉井伍長は十三名の部下とともに、輸送船に乗り込み上陸開始の時を待っていた。部下たちは緊張のあまり、上陸開始まで眠ることができずにいた。やがて輸送船が上陸、兵士たちは船を下りた。しかしその瞬間、敵の一掃射撃を受けてしまう。
Yuriko
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
Film adaptation of the hit song
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers begin to argue over how to run their facility. They had just received a large order from a foreign country and had obtained a loan from a lender that needed to be repaid.
皆川麗子は心にもない無理強いの結婚を避け、岡山の家を出た。東京に着いた麗子は、東京の大学で勉学中のただ一人の心の人、磯村晃に電話をする。磯村は喜びと驚きの声で10分もすればそちらに行けると答えた。しかし改札口が二つあることを知らなかった二人は、それぞれ別の改札口で数時間も待ち続け、ついに会うことができなかった……。
