Eiko Takamatsu

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A young war widow remembers her short time with her husband.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.