Cast: Kusuo Abe

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Kuroemon Onoe · Kaoru Yachigusa

Plot With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kusuo Abe · Sumiko Abe

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Satomi Oka · Shizue Natsukawa · Kusuo Abe

Plot Hantaro is a compulsive gambler who has run-up a huge debt in a crooked dice game, being forced to run out of Edo. Three years later, having saved enough money...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Shôji Nakayama · Joji Oka · Minoru Takada

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Sadako Sawamura · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kusuo Abe · Sachiko Tooyama

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Misako Watanabe · Wataru Ômae · Fujio Tokita

Plot Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Makoto Fujita · Minoru Shiraki · Hajime Hana · Yu Fujiki

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Hibari Misora · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Chie Ueki · Kunio Kaga

Plot Some of the finest jidai-geki actors appear in this exciting and entertaining tale of intrigue and action in old Japan. Teaming up the ever-popular Misora Hibari with the greatest samurai...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kusuo Abe · Minoru Chiaki · Susumu Fujita · Yumiko Hasegawa

Plot A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Kikuko Hôjô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kôkichi Takada

Plot During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Akiko Kazami · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura

Plot First episode of the Miyamoto Musashi saga directed by Tomu Uchida. In this episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Katsuo Nakamura · Kotaro Satomi · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hibari Misora · Kusuo Abe

Plot Ryujin Misaki (Cape Dragon), located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome Mondonosuke, a master swordsman and 'Hatamoto,' direct...