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The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.

A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

A widow life is left in turmoil when her childhood lover returns to town, left between the decision whether to go with him and start a new life in tokyo or settle down with her kindly brother-in-law, amidst a growing scandal that could tatter her family name.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

Story of a waitress whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a stiflingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest in him and tries to help him find a good job.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men who prey on them at the outset of the war, but the hustlers' plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience.

Propaganda film about a family that won't allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness, with sub-plots about about the family's heirloom sword and a blossoming romance.

As World War II escalates, the tight-knit occupants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their homes so that the government can use the space.

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

A couple plan to take advantage of an artist and his family, but his kind nature causes problems in their plan.

A young student (Akira Inshihama) falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

While revelations of his lower class past threaten his job, a school teacher fights for freedom and equality.

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished master-less samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

A tyrannical father (the broken drum) squashes the dreams of his family.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.