My Son! My Son!
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
Women of the Night
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
A Japanese Tragedy
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 with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
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Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Sanae Takasugi
as
Kazuyo Sakai
Tomisaburô Wakayama
as
Shuzo Kawase
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as
Yasuko Shibata
Hideko Takamine
as
Yukie Kawase
Mikio Naruse
Director
Mieko Takamine
as
Mihoko Nakagawa
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Tadashi Tanimura
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
as
Taeko Niemura
Kenji Mizoguchi
Director
Sadako Sawamura
as
Fujio Suga
as
Fujita
Masami Taura
as
Haruko's son
Eijirô Yanagi
as
Iwami
Yasujirô Ozu
Director
Reikichi Kawamura
as
Sangin's customer
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