Yoshiko Kusuda

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Based on the Nobu Koito story

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

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

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.