Shin'yō Nara

Until the Day We Meet Again — A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Scr

No Blood Relation — An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the d

First Steps Ashore — The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

There Was a Father — Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects

Woman of Tokyo — Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself