Fumio Niwa

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

번역일로 먹고 사는 마유미는 결혼을 하지 않아 주위 사람들의 걱정을 산다. 마유미는 결혼 생각이 없다며 대답을 피하지만 사실 그는 오랫동안 한 여성만을 좋아하고 있다. 한편, 마유미는 우연히 만난 친구에게 새로운 일을 제안 받는다. 바로 미군과 사귀는 여성들에게 영어 편지를 대신 써주는 일이다. 기노시타 게이스케 감독이 각본을 썼으며, 다나카 기누요도 마유미의 고객으로 잠시 출연한다. 1954년 칸영화제 경쟁부문 상영.

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.