Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But wh…
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Compan…
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who t…
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmar…
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the b…
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and fai…
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are R…
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.…
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a so…