Yoshiko Kusuda

Love Stopped the Runaway Train

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

The Hidden Profile

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Mama, I Need You!

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a brother and sister are working, and Kazuo becomes friendly with the girl, Yoneko. Love blossoms between the two. However, Yoneko's brother objects to his sister marrying Kazuo.

Boku chin hōrō-ki

1962 Japanese movie

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

1962 Japanese movie

Fateful Birthplace

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Hahakogusa

Based on the Nobu Koito story

Unripe Fruit

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

Tears

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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.

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.