Keiji Sada

Masaki Kobayashi'nin İnsan Manzaraları serisinin ilk filmi, 2. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında Japonya'nın Çin'in Mançurya bölgesini işgal ettiği yıllarda başlıyor. Parlak bir mühendis olmasının yanında bir hümanist ve savaş karşıtı olan Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), Mançurya'daki Çinli esirlerin çalışma şartlarının iyileştirilmesi üzerine yaptığı çalışma sonrasında yeni evlendiği eşi Michiko (Michiyo Aratama) ile birlikte küçük bir maden kasabasına gönderilir. Burada kendi insani politikalarını yerleştirmeye çalışırken birçok iş arkadaşıyla ters düşen Kaji, aynı zamanda Çinli esirlerin güvenini kazanmanın da kolay olmayacağını anlayacaktır.

İnsan Manzaraları serisinin 2. filminde Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) askere çağrılmıştır. Orduya ve savaşa karşı bir kişiliğe sahip olmakla birlikte iyi bir asker olarak dikkat çeken Kaji, aynı zamanda başına geleceklerden hiç çekinmeden doğru bildiklerini söylemeye devam etmektedir. Usta askerlere karşı kendisi gibi acemi erleri savunmaya çalışan Kaji, kendisi usta asker olup acemilerin eğitiminden sorumlu tutulduğunda tüm zorluklara karşın insani tutumunu sürdürmeye çalışacaktır. Ancak artık Japonya gerilemeye başlamış, Sovyet tehlikesi iyice yaklaşmıştır.

Minoru ve Isamu Hayashi evlerine televizyon aldırmak isteyen iki kardeştir. Ancak anne babaları bunu reddedince yetişkinleri boş konuşan yapmacık insanlar olmakla itham ederler. Babaları onlara susmalarını söyleyince onlar da tam öyle yapar: eve televizyon girinceye kadar ağızlarını açmayacaklardır!

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.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Wataru Hirayama ( Shin Saburi ) zengin bir Tokyo işadamıdır. Eski bir okul arkadaşı Mikami ( Chishū Ryū ), babasıyla tartıştığı için evden kaçan kızı Fumiko ( Yoshiko Kuga ) ile ilgili yardım ister onunla konuşmasını ister Watara Hirayama evden kaçan kız ile yardımcı olmak için konuşmayı kabul eder. Çalıştığı bir barda onu bulur, hikayesini dinler . Fumiko, babasının inatçılığından ve evliliğinine karşı çıkmasından şikayet ederken, şu anda bir müzisyene aşık olmuş ve kendi yolunda yaşamı sürdürmeye kararlıdır.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

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.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.