Cast: Masayo Banri

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Masayo Banri · Ryuzo Shimada · Hajime Mitamura

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yaeko Mizutani · Masayo Banri · Eijirô Yanagi

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Miwa Takada · Masayo Banri · Junichiro Narita

Plot Blind swordsman/masseur Ichi (known as Zatoichi, or "Masseur Ichi") angers a local yakuza gang when he defeats several of them in a wrestling match. When he finds that his long...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shigeru Amachi · Shiho Fujimura · Mayumi Nagisa

Direction Morihei Magatani

Cast Yôko Mihara · Bunta Sugawara · Reiko Seto · Kuniko Yamamura

Plot Yumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls...

Direction Toshio Shimura

Cast Michiko Maeda · Eiji Wakasugi · Utako Mitsuya · Masayo Banri

Direction Toshio Shimura

Cast Michiko Maeda · Ken Utsui · Shigeru Amachi · Saburô Sawai

Plot A melodramatic thriller set on an isolated island about a woman seeking revenge for her dead lover.

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shôji Nakayama · Naoko Kubo · Shigeru Amachi · Akira Nakamura

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hizuru Takachiho · Masayo Banri · Shigeru Amachi

Plot A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Tamao Nakamura · Reiko Fujiwara

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Michiyo Kogure · Eiji Funakoshi · Masayo Banri

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shigeru Amachi · San'emon Arashi · Masayo Banri

Direction Gorô Kadono

Cast Jûzaburô Akechi · Katsuko Wakasugi · Kyôko Yashiro · Masayo Banri

Plot The film begins strongly, with an atmospheric opening sequence, predating John Carpenter's The Fog by two decades, of shuffling ghost-like zombies, blood streaming from their faces, rising from the waves...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Masayo Banri · Mitsuko Han'ya · Hiroko Hanai · Gen Harada

Plot At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a businessman named Tsuruko...