Cast: Kanji Koshiba

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ayako Wakao · Seizaburô Kawazu · Saburo Date

Plot In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Chiezô Kataoka · Kôichi Katsuragi · Ryuji Kita

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Chikage Awashima · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Plot Samurai Kochiyama Soshun helps Kaneko Ichinosuke avenge the death of Kaneko’s father who was wrongly accused of embezzling, hoping that in return Kaneko takes geisha Michitose, the presumed sister of...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Koichi Mizuhara · Tatsuo Saito · Tominosuke Hayama

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Kazuo Hasegawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Plot Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Companion piece to Kinugasa's more famous Gate...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Yaeko Mizutani · Kikue Môri · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tominosuke Hayama

Direction Toshikazu Kôno

Cast Shinobu Araki · Teruyo Asagumo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi · Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryutaro Gomi · Eitarô Ozawa · Hizuru Takachiho

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Masayuki Mori · Koji Shidara · Isao Yamagata · Keiko Fujita

Direction Nobuo Adachi · Shigehiro Fukushima

Cast Chizuru Kitagawa · Takiko Mizunoe · Daijirô Natsukawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon

Plot The invisibility formula developed by Professor Nakazato attracts the attention of jewel thieves who kidnap the professor and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Masao Mishima · Eitarô Shindô · Mitsuo Asano · Hideo Azuma

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Harue Akagi · Eijirô Kataoka · Kanji Koshiba · Hitomi Nakahara

Plot The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted when a small child runs...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Shinobu Araki · Kodayu Ichikawa · Kanji Koshiba