Directed byKaneto Shindō GenresDrama ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsNobuko Otowa, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Sō Yamamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Tsutomu Shimomoto Rating71% Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jūkichi Uno). The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.
, 2h11 Directed byKaneto Shindō OriginJapon GenresDrama ActorsNobuko Otowa, Isuzu Yamada, Sumiko Hidaka, Sō Yamamura, Osamu Takizawa, Tanie Kitabayashi Rating70% Ginko (Nobuko Otowa) works as a geisha to support her poor family, even though she has trained as a shoemaker to work with her father (Jūkichi Uno). She works first in Tokyo, then in northern Japan, and then in Tokyo again. She catches pneumonia and is carried home to die, but in the end her younger sister Tokiko dies and she lives.
, 1h37 Directed byKaneto Shindō OriginJapon GenresDrama, War, Documentary ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films ActorsNobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Hideji Ōtaki, Jun Tatara, Yuriko Hanabusa Rating75% Takako Ishikawa (Nobuko Otowa) is a teacher on an island in the inland sea off the coast of Hiroshima after World War II. During her summer holiday, she goes back to Hiroshima to visit the graves of her parents and younger sister, who were killed in the bomb attack. She sees a beggar and realizes he is a man called Iwakichi (Osamu Takizawa) who used to work for her parents, now burned on the face and partially blind. She visits him at his home and asks about his family. His grandson, Tarō, is now in an institution. She visits the institution and finds the children barely have enough to eat. Takako offers to take Iwakichi and his grandson back to the island, but he refuses, running away.