Wedding Ring

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Michiyo lives in a small home in Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot consol

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

A psychological drama of the illness of an individual and the illness of the society.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.