Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Minoru Takada · Akio Kobori

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Jinpachi Nezu · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Jirô Chiba · Miyako Yamaguchi

Plot The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction. Blaming himself, he breaks with his family and wife,...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Sonny Chiba · Koji Tsuruta · Kyôsuke Machida

Plot A violent gang incident becomes infamous in Japan.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Ineko Arima · Masayuki Mori · Emiko Azuma

Plot When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Keiji Sada · Ineko Arima · Tatsuya Nakadai · Chieko Baisho

Plot A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Yoshi Kato · Yasushi Nagata · Miko Hara

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kei Sato · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Michiko Saga · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Kensaku Hara

Plot In the reign of the Emperor Suzaku (930- 946 A.D.), various mishaps happen after a strange white rainbow in appearance in the sky over Kyoto. The Emperor orders a famous...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Shinobu Araki

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sumiko Hidaka · Yukiko Todoroki · Jô Shishido

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Anzai · Sumiko Hidaka · Hiroshi Koizumi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Satomi Oka · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Fate leads wandering yakuza Yataro to meet and take up residence with the kindly Boss Tora, where the traveler strikes up a flirtatious semi-relationship with the Boss's lovely daughter Yuki....

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Daisuke Kato · Masao Mishima · Isao Yamagata · Chiezô Kataoka

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Nobuo Kaneko · Isao Kimura · Eiji Okada

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ineko Arima · Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Yukishiro

Plot One of the many film versions based on Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), in which Uchida does not shirk from bringing on the legendary writer himself. Young man is filled with passion...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Nobuko Otowa · Kenji Sugawara · Yumiko Hasegawa

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Sugawara

Plot Eccentric film about female reporter fired for writing about police corruption. To make money she hides while a weekly magazine offers a prize for her discovery. A bank embezzler and...