Rated 5.8 on TMDB
日本の悲劇
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Rated 7.6 on TMDB
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Rated 7.9 on TMDB
Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
