Cast: Shojiro Ogasawara

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shoji Yasui · Jun Hamamura · Taketoshi Naitô

Plot July, 1945: Japan's army is on the run. A platoon in Burma sings to keep its spirit up. Inspiration comes from their self-taught lute player, Mizushima. At war's end, while...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shin'ichi Yanagisawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kô Nishimura

Plot An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister.

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Yuriko Hanabusa · Mitsuko Hirokawa · Kanta Kisaragi

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 Morihei Magatani

Cast Jûzaburô Akechi · Ken Uehara · Ureo Egawa · Katsuko Wakasugi

Plot A mad scientist creates a bestial creature with which he plans to control the rest of humanity.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Shirô Niizuma · Shojiro Ogasawara

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Chiezô Kataoka · Kiyoshi Sawada · Shoji Kiyokawa

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.