Achako Hanabishi

Naruse's second "political" film, Both You and I (Ore mo omae mo, 1946), is a revisiting of the salaryman genre of Flunky, Work Hard but this time the two salarymen, after being thoroughly humiliated and exploited by their boss, finally confront him and accuse him of wartime profiteering. They threaten to "stick together" and "fight for our rights" in the face of a threatened, but unspecified, reorganization of the company. (KG)

A film about life in Tokyo right after World War II.

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And it is said that anyone who sees the train will die. ...... A film adaptation of a popular radio drama.

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after the reward money.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series was shot in TohoScope.

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.