Masami Taura

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

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.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed ...