Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Yumeji Tsukioka
Yachiyo Ohnuki
Tatsuya Mihashi
Kappei Ohnuki
So Yamamura
Daisuke Kaji
Rentaro Mikuni
Jiro Sone
Michiyo Aratama
Kyoko Yamana
Fukuko Sayo
Shigeno, Daisuke's Wife
Nobuo Kaneko
Akira Mimura
Eitarō Ozawa
President Fujikawa
Toshio Takahara
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Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
