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When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mothers attempt to sustain her family

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money lender, spending her days cold heartedly collecting debts Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu

In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination from their Japanese neighbors, as well as various inter family problems

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 console himself with her strong p

Tokyo Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawas ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia Each knows the other isnt happy, they themselves arent happy, but they dont talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their u

In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruses adaptation of an oft filmed popular novel by Saisei Muro, the eldest daughter Machiko Kyo of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds

Aya is the Madame who runs a restaurant where Geishas meet with their customers to eat, drink, listen to music and sing

A middle aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends

Poor, pathetic mother Ose Kumeko Urabe has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza A woman devoted to other peoples needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Gin

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity