Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong…

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are…

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

Follows a woman’s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.