Cast: Hiroshi Tachikawa

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Plot 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada

Plot In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiju Kobayashi · Yûzô Kayama

Plot In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent. However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot It concerns an aging mother who lives in Tokyo, her five grown children, and several of their spouses, nearly all of whom have money troubles. When one of the daughters...

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 Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Minoru Chiaki · Noriko Sengoku

Plot Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Plot A man with an ordinary life gets drunk and announces that he will write something for a magazine. After he sobers up, he writes a novella, using himself as a...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Kubo · Kumi Mizuno · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Plot Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi · Hugo Grimaldi

Cast Makoto Satô · Misa Uehara · Keiju Kobayashi · Toshirô Mifune

Plot Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Daisuke Kato · Sadako Sawamura · Hiroshi Tachikawa · Chikage Awashima

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Reiko Dan · Yumi Shirakawa · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Plot Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Norihei Miki · Sonosuke Sawamura · Murasaki Fujima · Kyoko Aoyama

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Yoshiko Kuga · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Keiju Kobayashi · Kaoru Yachigusa · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Akira Kubo · Akira Takarada · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Kamatari Fujiwara

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Hisaya Morishige · Takashi Shimura · Mitsuko Kusabue

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akihiko Hirata · Machiko Kitagawa · Chiyoko Shimakura · Yoshio Kosugi

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

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