Eijirô Hisaita

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With soil that is hard to work & a warm/hot climate, the immigrants have a hard life in near slave-on-a-plantation conditions. However their toil allows them to progress in the then American way to become middle class citizens. Now their kids are young adults... are they all American or Japanese? The "day of infamy" dawns. (ACM and me)

A grieving young man infiltrates a corrupt corporate empire by marrying the vice president's daughter, meticulously planning to expose the executives responsible for his father's forced suicide. As he uses insider access to orchestrate a complex web of psychological revenge, he faces moral dilemmas and mounting danger from the powerful men who will stop at nothing to conceal their crimes.

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues. (imdb)

A psychological take on the classic myth.

While he struggles with his feelings of guilt and sees his dead wife, Oiwa, everywhere the people around him begin noticing his strange behavior and his new wife decides to distance herself from him. (mydramalist.info)

Amidst rumors of his lower class origins that threaten his job, a school teacher pleads for freedom and equality (hulu)

Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Fusako's tenuous grasp on meaningful life is shaken when she learns that her lover is having an affair with her sister. (imdb)

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society.

In 1930s Kyoto, a professor's daughter faces political turmoil as militarism rises. Torn between two students with opposing ideologies—one a cautious pacifist and the other a radical activist—she marries the radical and chooses a challenging path. When her husband is arrested as a spy, she relocates to his rural village to rebuild her life alongside his grief-stricken parents.

A bitter look back at responsibility for the war, a new interpretation of democracy as popular justice instead of license, and encouragement for women to assert themselves. A widow with three sons and an outspoken daughter relies on her militarist brother-in-law to manage the family during the war. The oldest son is jailed for pacifist thoughts, and the uncle breaks his niece's engagement as a result. The two younger sons are drafted and both die, and by the end of the war the widow realizes that her brother-in-law's counsel has all been self-aggrandizement. She throws him out and joyfully receives her newly released pacifist son as morning dawns for the liberal family. Winner of Kinema Jumpo #1 for the year 1946. (KG)