The Only Son tells the story of a single mother living in Tokyo during the Great Depression. She works in a factory and dreams of her son becoming a successful schoolteacher. Despite financial hardships, she sacrifices everything to provide a good education for her only son. The film depicts the struggles of the urban setting, the mother-son relationship, and the poverty prevalent at the time.

Set in post-war Japan, the movie follows the life of a young boy who lives in a tenement. He experiences the hardships and struggles of a working-class family while searching for his lost father. Along the way, he forms deep relationships and learns valuable life lessons.

I Was Born, But... tells the story of two young boys who, after moving to a new neighborhood, confront a neighborhood bully and deal with the challenges of growing up. The film explores themes of loss of innocence, social order, and the self-absorption of adults in a humorous and poignant way.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners.

In post-war Japan, the Toda family must come to terms with the changing society and the tensions that arise within their own family. As the siblings and their spouses gather for a family meeting, long-held resentments and buried secrets come to the surface, testing the bonds of their familial relationships.

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe. After being released from prison, he hopes to be rehabilitated thanks to the love of his family and risks his life to fight the evil that stands in his way.

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.

Apart from You tells the story of a geisha and her teenage son who struggle with resentment, shame, and the challenges of their family.

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.

In the post-war era, a group of individuals from different social backgrounds are brought together for an intense night of intrigue, where power dynamics and ethical choices collide with devastating consequences.

A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) is a captivating drama that explores the challenges faced by a mother who must navigate a complex web of relationships and overcome personal tragedies. Set in a time of societal upheaval, the film follows the journey of a mother as she grapples with loss, confronts her own past, and strives to provide a better future for her family. With themes of love, sacrifice, and resilience, this movie is a heartfelt exploration of the bonds we forge and the lengths we go to protect those we hold dear.

This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents, hating his legacy and embracing everyone else from simple background. Only love can help him mature, hopefully in time to be a great lord for the people. A story of young Yoshimune, the future Shogun.

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and nodded their heads. This was the beginning of their collective affection for the new Ms. Shiono. The school for girls is a sacred place where the hearts of hundreds of innocent girls should ferment beautifully and freely for the day when they will become wives and mothers to come. How can we abandon them in such a state? Even after the nightmarish war was over, the nightmare remained at Shuei Girls' School.

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.