Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with…

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with…

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.