Cast: Tôru Yuri

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Erika Oda · Susumu Terajima · Takashi Naitô

Plot After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Noboru Andô · Kenji Imai · Akiko Kudô

Plot A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tsunehiko Watase · Tatsuo Umemiya · Shun Ueda

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Bin Amatsu · Ryohei Uchida · Asao Uchida

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Ryohei Uchida · Toshiaki Minami · Ryoji Hayama

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Izumi Yukimura · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yumi Shirakawa

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tatsuo Umemiya · Susumu Fujita · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Yôko Mihara

Plot After three years away Jiro returns to his paternal village home, only to discover his father has been murdered and the locals main mean of income - fishing - taken...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Kunie Tanaka · Yôko Mihara · Tôru Yuri

Plot A strange episode with Shinichi Tachibana (Ken Takakura) involved with horse-breeders and, at one point, getting revenge on at the guy who killed his Shetland pony.

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Jô Shishido · Kon Ohmura · Kiyoshi Hitomi · Tôru Yuri

Plot When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Tadao Sawamoto · Mari Watanabe · Midori Tashiro · Tonbo Zushi

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Chiyoko Kazama · Takashi Fujiki · Miki Sugimoto

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Shoichi Ozawa · Masahiko Shimazu · Mayumi Shimizu · Tôru Yuri

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu

Cast Shigeru Muroi · Kôhei Ôtomo · Isao Bitô · Ayumi Ito

Plot "Some people laugh, and some people cry, until their grand occasion to make their first appearance on stage." Out of 4,000 applicants, only 250 will make it to the preliminary...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Jiro Okazaki · Eiji Gô · Yaeko Wakamizu · Meiko Kaji

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Kunie Tanaka · Kanjuro Arashi · Toru Abe

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Eiji Wakasugi · Masumi Tachibana · Teruo Yoshida · Mitsuko Aoi

Plot A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Reiko Ike · Tsunehiko Watase · Ryôko Ema · Tôru Yuri

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Meiko Kaji · Sonny Chiba · Shingo Yamashiro · Yukie Kagawa

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Nijiko Kiyokawa