The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war time Japan
Black River (1957)
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post War era
Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Two sisters find out the existence of their long lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child