Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure

Seishun wo warera ni

Tokyo Bus Girl

1958 Japanese movie

Third Class Executives

1950s Japanese comedy.

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.

The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the villain’s niece and brothers on the other. When the villains’ carefully crafted facade is exposed, a monk who sides with the widow puts on the performance of a lifetime. A heartwarming pastoral comedy rich in human warmth.

Oyabaka taishō

Mama's Diary

Ginza Jungle Girl

A Ginza pickpocket, wanting to show his mother his filial piety, disguises himself as an office worker and takes her sightseeing in Tokyo, but his mother sees right through him—a hilarious and tearful masterpiece of comedy.

Cruel Story of a Good Man

Osanaki mono wa uttaeru

In postwar Kagoshima, a young boy lives with his sick mother and younger sister under the shadow of his late father, a disgraced army general executed after the war. Once honored as a hero, his father is now mocked by the townspeople, and the children endure both poverty and cruelty. After their mother dies, Katsu is taken away by his estranged grandfather, whose real interest lies in the military pension left behind by the family.

Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru

O-Yae no moguri isha

Ponkotsu oyaji

1962 Japanese movie

おヤエのあんま天國

おヤエのママさん女中

Oyae no hatsukoi sensei

A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.