
8
Early Summer
IMDb: 8 1951 125 min
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

7.3
The Munekata Sisters
IMDb: 7.3 1950 112 min
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of ...

8.2
Late Spring
IMDb: 8.2 1949 110 min
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

7.5
There Was a Father
IMDb: 7.5 1942 93 min
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

7.7
The Only Son
IMDb: 7.7 1936 87 min
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she ...

6.9
Dragnet Girl
IMDb: 6.9 1933 100 min
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.