Cast: Senshô Matsumoto

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors,...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shogoro Ichikawa · Ryu Kuze · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Kenji Sahara · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Arishima

Plot A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Jô Shishido · Kon Ohmura · Kiyoshi Hitomi · Tôru Yuri

Plot When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder...

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiju Kobayashi · Sen Hara · Michiko Araki

Plot After losing her husband, Akiko, a young deaf woman, meets and marries a deaf and dumb man who falls for her. Despite their lack of financial resources and the burden...

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa · Kumi Mizuno · Chisako Hara

Plot Story of romance and rivalry between to ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Kikuko Hôjô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Izumi Ashikawa · Mari Shiraki · Tomio Aoki

Plot The Perfect Game is a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. College students come up with...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Kaoru Yachigusa · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Keiko Sata

Plot A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career...

Direction Hideo Onchi

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yuriko Hoshi · Kô Nishimura · Masao Oda

Plot Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Junko Ikeuchi · Keiju Kobayashi · Eitarô Ozawa · Ryo Ikebe

Direction Takashi Tsuboshima

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Yuriko Hoshi · Akiko Wakabayashi

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hitoshi Ueki · Hajime Hana · Kei Tani · Hiroshi Inuzuka

Plot Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Junko Ikeuchi · Shûji Sano · Ryo Ikebe · Tadao Takashima

Plot The relationships between the hostesses and the customers who visit a typical city bar.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Nobuo Kaneko · Hideaki Nitani · Izumi Ashikawa

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Makoto Fujita · Nobuko Otowa · Tamao Nakamura

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mari Shiraki · Sanae Nakahara · Kô Nishimura