成瀨首次取得巨大成功的影片，主演為後來曾和他結過婚的明星千葉早智子。性格開朗的在寫字樓工作的女孩和母親一同居住，她將要結婚了。她發現父親和其情婦住在鄉下，於是決定去找他並說服他回家。到了一看，她發現父親跟一個大家庭居住在一起，她看到了情婦對父親和孩子們的愛。父親來鎮上參加她的婚禮，她發現父親和母親明顯個性不合，於是衹能讓他回到他的情婦家庭。《電影旬報》「年度十大」列第一。

The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.
This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.

In his review of Feminine Melancholy in Kinema Junpo, critic Mizumachi Seiji praises Irie's performance as the best of her talkie career. However, he is very critical of the film itself, which he sees as a typical story of a woman in an unhappy marriage. He is not sympathetic toward the heroine's patient suffering and describes the nagging mother-in-law as a "hackneyed theme." Naruse's detailed "documentation" of Hiroko's role in the household is dismissed as a "manneristic obsession," and Mizumachi suggests that the director is hiding behind "the shadow of the materials." Most severely, he criticizes Naruse for "abandoning his authority as an auteur" by resorting to "shinpa-tragedy," which is seen as a capitulation to a form that has "wielded a powerful hold over the imagination of the masses." Although Mizumachi notes that Naruse has probed into "the deepest recess of the female psyche," he doesn't recognize this as the film's achievement, perhaps because he is looking for something else from the director. His review reveals the difficulties Naruse faced in maintaining his "auteur status" while moving with the tides of popular culture. For Mizumachi, the character of Yoko is the most typical Naruse heroine, perhaps because she is dragged down by her delinquent lover; however, in retrospect, it is evident that Hiroko's tenacious survival of adverse circumstances looks forward to Naruse's postwar heroines.

在日本甲府的偏僻山村，宁静的乡间小道上行驶着一辆又老又旧的巴士。司机园田（藤原鶏太 饰）和美丽的女售票员阿驹（高峰秀子 饰）每日起早贪黑，迎来送往去向各处的客人。虽则努力多多，但是收入一向微薄，难见起色。迫于生计，公司独辟蹊径，决定打造一条专门面向各地游客的旅游线路。园田和阿驹为这个设想所触动，二人开始着手准备起来。适逢自称小说家的井川（夏川大二郎 饰）来此游览当地名胜，他们于是拜托井川，撰写游览所用的演讲稿……
本片根据井伏鱒二的短篇小说《おこまさん》改编，是导演成濑巳喜男和女演员高峰秀子首次合作的作品。

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually ...@

一个关于竞争与自我牺牲的爱情故事，发生于明治末期。三弦琴艺人鹤八与民谣歌家鹤次郎是一个传统音乐组合。不过他们常常争吵。他们分开了，鹤次郎却无法靠自己兴旺。他们就又复合了，但当鹤次郎发现鹤八陷入一场恋爱之中时，便故意与她争执到分崩离析的地步，好让她安心去结婚。

一部在东京市中心浅草地区置景的情节剧。三个姐妹被她们的母亲像奴隶一样管制着，希望能将她们培养成三弦琴街头艺人。二姐对可怕的母亲言听计从，大姐和她的爱人私奔了。某天，二姐在街头遇到了她的大姐，她正在为和丈夫返回他的家乡筹款。她们的母亲拒绝帮助，二姐打算从她那些阿飞朋友们手中通过游戏的方式骗到点钱。结果他们骗的那个男人成了小妹的男朋友，二姐在躲避冲突时受伤了。她隐瞒自己的伤口，去车站为大姐送行。

傾きかけた老舗の酒屋の主・健吉（汐見）の娘、邦江（千葉）と紀美子（梅園）。しかし、紀美子は愛人のお葉（伊藤）の子であった。邦江は、健吉とお葉、紀美子が一緒に暮らせるように、自分は結婚して家を出ようとする。チェーホフの『桜の園』から着想した作品。

已是年老色衰的艺伎菊江（吉川満子 饰），为了支持儿子义雄（磯野秋雄 饰）的学业，不得不一次次抛头露面，靠卖笑赚取营生。然而义雄却并不理解母亲的苦衷，反而深以母亲的职业为耻。正处在青春期的他心中满是苦恼与愤懑，不仅经常逃学，还与不良少年们混在一起。似乎，只有与菊江同在一间艺伎馆的照菊（水久保澄子 饰）才能触摸到义雄脆弱的心，两人既像姐弟，又如恋人。
在与母亲的一次冲突过后，义雄随照菊来到她出生的故乡——一个傍海且贫穷落后的小渔村旅行散心。在这里他发现，外表美丽可亲的照菊竟然也有着无尽的痛苦以及难以逃脱的宿命……

她是一家酒吧的侍酒女郎，夜幕降临以后，她带着浅吟低笑走入这片声色场所，周旋在各色人等之间。这是一份颇让人瞧不起的工作，然而没有其他技能的她只能继续流连于此，只为赚取足够的生活费养活尚且年幼的儿子。白日里，她拖着疲惫的身体返回破落的居所，从邻居好心的大叔大婶手中领会孩子，男孩活泼可爱，是母亲于这艰难世上仅有的慰籍与欢乐。
某天，销声匿迹已有三年之久的丈夫返回家中，虽然一万个憎恨与不情愿，但是妻子还是接受了丈夫。他发誓改过自新，尽快找到工作，无奈天不遂人愿，日子一天天过去，他始终未找到一份合适的营生，而她也不得不在丈夫复杂的目光注视下继续抛头露面……

在一片普通的住宅区，生活着平凡的冈部一家四口。男主人冈部（山口勇 饰）是武藏人寿保险的销售员，但是他的业绩平平，收入自然稀薄可怜。结果家里破破烂烂，妻子（浪花友子 饰）儿女食不果腹，时而被房东追讨房租，时而又因儿子阿进（加藤清一 饰）惹祸而被别人的家长找上门来。不过冈部毫不气馁，因为只要他将富有的户田家拿下，他便可以摆脱贫穷的困境。
次日，冈部整装出发，到了户田家门口却发现敌对公司的销售员中村（关时男 饰）正在大拉业务。两人因此大打出手，结果热恼了女主人（明山静江 饰），最终被轰了出去。为了得到保单，这两个小人物想尽了一切办法……

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband’s difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”

旅役者

关于一个新来到小城中，从事各种工作的工人的打闹喜剧。

The third film that Naruse made in 1950, White Beast (Shiroi yaji, 1950), was described by Kinema Junpo critic Tsumura Hideo three years later as "so indescribably miserable as to haunt me even today." Tsumura represents the bulk of Japanese critics of the time, who felt that Naruse experienced a terrible slump throughout the 1940s and this film seemed to be the "bottom of the ocean." The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its catfights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.