A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college…
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice…
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position…
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn…
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come…
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither…
Mikio Naruses final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose…
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later…
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.