Ryozo Toyoshima

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Japanese comedy film.

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.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.

Japanese comedy film.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

소작인의 딸 하루코는 대지주 나구라 가의 차남 히데오와 용서되지 않는 사랑에 빠져 동반자살을 기도한다. 하지만 하루코만 홀로 살아남고, 임신 중이던 그녀는 마을 사람들의 차가운 시선 속에 아들 스테오를 낳아 키운다. 19년 후, 장성한 스테오는 나구라 가 장남의 딸 사쿠라에게 연정을 품게 되나, 어머니의 처지를 생각해 마음을 드러내지 못한다.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

2차 대전 당시 범죄를 저지른 군인들을 수감 중인 감옥. 이곳에는 다양한 사연을 가진 죄수들이 미군들의 감시 속에서 끔찍한 하루를 보내고 있다. 이들의 꿈은 언젠가 이곳을 나가는 것뿐이다.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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.

1928년, 쇼도지마의 분교에 젊은 여선생이 부임한다. 그녀는 점점 섬의 생활에 융화되며 12명에 불과한 학생들은 선생님께 가능한의 애정을 표한다. 학생 중 한 명인 마츠에는 우동 집에서 일을 하고 고토에는 집에 혼자 남겨진 채 폐병으로 죽어가는 등 섬의 생활은 가난하기만 하다. 전쟁이 시작되며 오이시 선생의 남편도 학생들도 차례차례 전쟁에서 죽어 가고, 오이시 선생의 딸마저도 나무에서 떨어져 죽어버린다. 패전 다음해, 오이시 선생은 다시 섬의 분교로 돌아와 옛 제자의 아이들의 담임이 되는데...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

전쟁 미망인 하루코는 아타미의 여관에서 하녀로 일하며 두 아이를 훌륭하게 키우기 위해 온갖 괴로움을 마다하지 않았다. 그 결과 지금은 딸 우타코를 양재학교와 영어학원에, 아들 세이치를 도쿄의 의과대학에 보내고 있다. 하지만 하루코의 고생을 이해하지 못하는 자식들은 어머니를 차가운 눈으로 바라본다. 세이치가 유복한 의사의 양자로 들어가겠다고 하고, 우타코가 영어 교사와 눈이 맞아 도망가자, 하루코는 절망에 빠진다.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.