Kôzô Kubo

The Rose on His Arm

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Farewell to Dream

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

The Tattered Wings

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

Beautiful Days

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Sincere Heart

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.