Yoshio Omori

비 오던 어느날 밤, 한 자동차가 부두를 질주하다 그대로 바다로 돌진해 빠져버리는 사고가 발생한다. 차에 타고 있던 것은 늙은 남자와 젊은 여자였고 그 중 젊은 여자만 간신히 목숨을 건진다. 하지만 그녀는 결국...

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…

Youth movie.

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

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 drama.

석탄 산업이 불황기로 접어든 1954년 봄. 사가현의 즈루노하나 탄광에서는 감원에 반대하는 파업이 한창이다. 그 와중에 광부이면서 야스모토 일가의 기둥이었던 기이치, 요시코, 다카이치(작은오빠), 스에코의 아버지가 죽는다. 남겨진 네 형제를 돕기 위해 이웃집 헨미 씨는 장남인 기이치를 임시직에서 정식 직원으로 채용해줄 것을 탄광회사 간부에게 부탁해 보지만, 조센징은 감원 대상 1호라는 말만 듣게 된다. 결국 기이치는 임시직마저 잃게 되어 지금까지 살아온 사택에서도 쫓겨나게 된다. 헨미 씨가 잠시 그의 집에 거두어 들이지만, 곧 헨미 씨마저 사고로 부상을 입고 사직하게 되어, 장남인 기이치는 나가사키로, 차남인 요시코는 어느 정육점으로 각각 일자리를 찾아 떠나고, 다카이치와 스에코만 남겨진다.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shimizu’s skillful direction.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.