Cast: Isao Bitô

Direction Ryuichi Takamori

Cast Sonny Chiba · Hiroyuki Sanada · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Shizue Abe

Plot An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a Pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as "special fees" from parents wanting to assure...

Direction Akio Kondo

Cast Saori · Kazutaka Yoshii · Akinori Andô · Isao Bitô

Direction Takayoshi Watanabe

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Shigeru Muroi · Yuji Miyake

Plot One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just...

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Hironobu Nomura · Takeshi Kaga · Mitsuko Baisho · Junko Mihara

Plot University student sax player gets a lesson in the hard-boiled noir life.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Hisashi Igawa · Renji Ishibashi · Saburo Ishikura

Direction Gô Rijû

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Rie Tomosaka · Shinya Tsukamoto · Miyuki Matsuda

Plot When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hiroki Matsukata · Mikijiro Hira · Seizo Fukumoto

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Isao Bitô · Shizuo Chûjô · Roland Hanna · Ken Hara

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Bitô · Tadao Futami · Kenichi Hagiwara · Reiko Inoue

Plot Three toseinin, low-class wanderers who follow the yakuza code, go from village to village ready to work or fight for anyone who will give them food and lodging.