In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studie…
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite thei…
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo,…
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unawa…
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, de…
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegi…
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a fath…
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, …
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a home…