Chikagai nijuyojikan (1947)

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.