Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Japanese war-era film

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.

1962 Japanese movie

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.