Misako Shimizu

Based on "Heaven and Maiko", a short story from the book "Chiisaki Hanabana" by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her quest to become independent to be able to look after her younger brother. But then tragedy strikes...

Japanese war-era film

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.