Cast: Fumiko Murata

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eitarô Ozawa · Jun Negami

Plot The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this existential melodrama. A young woman on a mountaineering holiday is accused of murdering her husband. Tied to a mountain between her brutalising...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Yuzo Hayakawa · Kiyoko Hirai

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Gen Harada · Yuzo Hayakawa

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Ken Ogata · Mayumi Ogawa · Yuzo Hayakawa

Plot Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Kaneko Iwasaki · Kumeko Urabe · Michiko Ai

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eiji Funakoshi · Yukiko Fuji · Daisuke Kato

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Kuniko Miyake · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot Sansako and Shinko are two friends whose respective boyfriends ask them to have sex. Shinko accepts, Sansako refuses ... but the consequences will not be easy for either of them.