Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.

阿玉（高峰秀子饰）与卖糖为生的父亲相依为命，过着十分贫苦的生活。她因曾被有妇之夫骗去贞洁，被人认为是“残次品”，难以寻得好姻缘。某个媒婆告诉她，有位叫末造的和服店店主十分中意于她，他的妻子早已去世，因为害怕世人议论，所以只能让阿玉当情妇。阿玉误以为真，于是成为了被末造包养的情人，但很快发现，对方并不是和服店店主，而是一个声名狼藉的放贷人，同时，他的妻子也并未去世。正当阿玉感到十分痛苦之际，她遇到了医学院的大学生冈田（芥川比呂志饰），虽与对方只有短短几面之缘，但阿玉已对其芳心暗许，就当阿玉想要邀请对方与自己共进晚餐之时，事情却被末造发现。末造并未发火，而是幸灾乐祸地告诉她，冈田即将远赴德国

著名外国小说改编，讲快乐的学生王子爱上酒馆女郎。小津的学生王子纵使率性依然，却没法再无忧无虑下去，影片的情感大幅转移在穷学生那忧郁的脸孔上。学生王子做了社长后，把同学都弄到公司里，但彼此关系开始因阶级有别而质变。小津最后一部以学生和小职员为题的作品，标志著由喜入悲的开始。

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

1948 film by Akira Kurosawa