<동경은 좋은 곳>이라는 무성영화를 개작한 오즈의 첫 발성영화. 오즈는 아들과 어머니라는 비유적 수단을 통해 일본의 산업화, 근대화로 인해 야기된 가족 문제를 심도 깊게 포착해내고 있다. 시골의 면직공장에서 일하며 근근이 생활을 연명하는 츠네는 사랑스러운 외아들 료스케의 진학을 위해 많은 희생을 감수한다. 세월이 흘러 료스케는 도쿄에서 대학을 졸업하지만, 불경기로 인해 야학 교사로 밖에는 활동하지 못한다. 아들의 출세를 굳게 믿고 있던 츠네는 아들을 만나기 위해 부푼 마음을 안고 도쿄로 상경하지만, 장성한 료스케의 삶은 어머니의 기대와는 사뭇 다른 상태다.
아리가토 씨는 젊고 친절한 버스 운전사로, 그가 모는 버스는 가난한 해안가 마을에서 산을 넘어 도시로 향한다. 그는 좁은 길에서 길을 비켜주는 주민들에게 언제나 ‘고맙습니다’라는 인사를 전한다. 딸을 대처로 보내려는 걱정 많은 어머니와 그 딸, 아리가토 씨에게 추파를 던지는 여인 등 오늘도 다양한 승객들이 아리가토 씨의 버스에 오른다.
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)
Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The president of the construction company tries to grow a mustache like Kato's and, failing, orders Kato to shave off his.
A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.
The remaining fragments of an early Ozu film. It is the simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life (food, hopes, work...). Everything goes well until they gallantly rescue a young (and pretty) woman injured in a road accident. Since the lady has nowhere to go, the two good-hearted friends invite her to their home. She soon becomes their housemaid and they soon begin to seek her favors. Alas, she falls for a young student she has met in the neighborhood, much to the two friends' dismay.
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film.
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film.
