Yôko Katsuragi

Somiya was an old widower with a daughter, named Noriko, mature for marriage but would rather live with her father... (imdb)

Ichiro Aoye, a young painter, encounters a famous singer, Miyako Saijo, while on holiday in the mountains. He gives her a ride and coincidentally stays at the same inn. A tabloid magazine specializing in scandals blows this encounter up into a huge falsehood designed to humiliate Miyako, who has been uncooperative with the press. (imdb)

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, want little to do with their mother. They have a different view of their childhood and her sacrifices: in their eyes, she abandoned them to live a life of pleasure. The self-pitying Haruko is sure her life was one of pain and humiliation, for her children. (imdb)

Kuniko Miyake (a perennial supporting actress in Ozu) inherits the reins of a cosmetics company after her husband dies. She and her younger sisters (Setsuko Wakayama and Yoko Katsuragi) initially live together. The two younger sisters are both smitten by Koji Tsuruta, but settle for less rewarding spouses. The older sister also remarries. All three then proceed to disentangle themselves from their improvident matches. (kerpan)

In The Good Fairy Kinoshita juxtaposes two extremes - the smarmy world of tabloid journalism and the hero's (Rentaro) romantic longings for a sweet 19 year old girl who is scheduled to die within the next few months. She has no prospect of future life and her family is poor, which means that loving her makes absolutely no practical sense at all. If she dedicates herself to him, it is an easy dedication; with only a few months to live, she has nothing to lose. (Fully Reconditioned)

Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. The narrative is given scope and variety by having Sada and his wife continually being transferred from one lonely outpost to another. (mubi.com)

Amidst rumors of his lower class origins that threaten his job, a school teacher pleads for freedom and equality (hulu)

The Kamiya family struggles to keep the town fishing association from going bankrupt as they deal with a dishonest captain and his degenerate crew. (imdb)

A film based on the works of Nagai S?kichi.

Chutaro of Banba is a lone yakuza searching for the mother who abandoned him when he was five. During his travels, he is pursued by the henchmen of a yakuza boss whom he'd attacked. (imdb)

A young student wants to avenge his sister from an office worker who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student's sister to make him suffer the same fate. (imdb)

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hokkaido and meets a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.