Yoshiko Kuga

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream ...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But ...

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.

Yukiko’s fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients ...

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with ...

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love ...

Hamako has just started working for her personal hero, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, though, as she is ...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of the war separates them.

Slice of life film centered around a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.