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- DirectorNobuo AoyagiStarsOsamu TakizawaTadao TakashimaKen Mitsuda
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsIchirô SugaiFubuki KoshijiMariko Okada
- DirectorSenkichi TaniguchiStarsRentarô MikuniAkemi NegishiKeiju KobayashiStory about poor Japanese woman living near an American army base why resort to prostitution.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsAkemi NegishiTadashi SuganumaKisaburo SawamuraFrom June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriYoshiko KugaIn Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her character's exhaustively maintained independence) that are then intruded upon by her ill-tempered older brother (Masayuki Mori), whose initially comic, brute-force presence grows increasingly menacing and treacherous as the film progresses.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsRyô IkebeMariko OkadaHisaya MorishigeStory of a simple and naïve middle school teacher.
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsYukiko TodorokiAyako WakaoJôji Oka
- DirectorSeiji HisamatsuStarsRyô IkebeHideo TakamatsuMitsuko KusabueIn this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsKusuo AbeShinobu ChiharaKensaku Hara
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaHideko TakamineWhere Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsKen UeharaYôko SugiRentarô MikuniA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.