"The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows."
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
高峰秀子
Keiko Yashiro
森雅之
Nobuhiko Fujisaki
団令子
Junko Inchihashi
仲代達矢
Kenichi Komatsu
加東大介
Matsukichi Sekine
二代目 中村鴈治郎
Goda
小沢栄太郎
Minobe
淡路恵子
Yuri
中北千枝子
Tomoko
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.
คิงโกะ กอนโด ประธานบริษัทผลิตรองเท้า กำลังวางแผนซื้อหุ้นเพื่อควบคุมกิจการ แต่แล้วเขากลับได้รับโทรศัพท์ขู่กรรโชก โดยคนร้ายอ้างว่าจับตัวลูกชายของเขาไปเรียกค่าไถ่ ทว่าความจริงปรากฏว่าเด็กที่ถูกจับคือลูกชายของคนขับรถของเขา กอนโดต้องเลือกระหว่างอนาคตของบริษัทกับชีวิตของเด็กชาย ท่ามกลางความกดดันและการสืบสวนของตำรวจ
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.