Toshiko Kobayashi

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 ...

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.

A girl who’d left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.