Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to…
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man’s mistress, finds herself…
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college…
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When…
The story of Muhmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child…
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic…
An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him…
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come…
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited…
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for…