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

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

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.

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.

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

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.