Till We Meet Again (1950)
The hero Saburo Okada Eiji is obstructed by a series of events from meeting Keiko Kuga Yoshiko, his fiancee
The Ugly American (1963)
An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
A French actress filming an anti war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war
Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mothers attempt to sustain her family
This Transient Life (1970)
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affair
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them
She and He (1963)
In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husbands disapproval
Junai monogatari (1957)
Junai Monogatari is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances