Nobuko Yoshiya
Japanese novelist.
Works
Stepsisters
A moving story of intense love, hate, and reconciliation born out of a fateful encounter between the only daughter of a conglomerate leader and a girl from a poor family.
Release Date1985-04-16
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
A Winter Round Dance
Two babies girls are born, one from a rich doctor's family, the other in the family of a fisherman. An accident occurs during the absence of the doctor, and his daughter is burnt and injured. Ignoring the advice of his wife to apologize for the wound, the fisherman decides to exchange the babies. So they raise Shinobu, the daughter of the doctor, while Chizuko, their real daughter, is raised in the doctor's family. Eighteen years later, their paths cross, their fate continues to be deeply intertwined.
Release Date2005-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count62
Bellflower
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...
Release Date1940-07-30
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
Release Date1952-05-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
Release Date1938-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.
Release Date1937-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Miai Ryokou
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.
Release Date1955-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals.
Release Date1937-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Aiyoku no sabaki
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...
Release Date1953-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals.
Release Date1937-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Kaze no uchi so to
Release Date1959-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
Release Date1937-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
The Sweet Interns
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
Release Date1968-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Flower Picking Diary
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.
Release Date1939-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
Release Date1941-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
Release Date1941-07-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Dreaming People
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.
Release Date1953-06-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
Release Date1937-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers
When writer Kaoru and her sister-in-law Miyoko fall in love with each other, Kaoru's jealous husband tries to put an end to their relationship by making life difficult for the two women.
Release Date1935-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Mother's Melody
Release Date1937-03-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Kyōshū
Release Date1952-07-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while navigating the pressures of family expectation and an arranged marriage. Her path shifts when she encounters Shinichi, whose presence stirs both inspiration and conflict within the tightly bound world around her. Amid love, rivalry, and the fragile beauty of flowers, Kozue must decide how to shape her own future.
Release Date1958-08-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story