Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

1962 Japanese movie