Cast: Tamotsu Tamura

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Plot An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Yasuko Sanjo · Juro Kara · Masao Imafuku

Plot A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe (a Ronin), and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him. This is basically the whole plot...

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Hajime Araki · Kai Ato · Takamori Gen · Yoshio Harada

Plot In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Rika Aoki · Jiro Kawarazaki · Taiji Tonoyama · Kotoe Hatsui

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kumiko Jô · Yoshi Kato · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tanie Kitabayashi

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Sadako Sawamura · Noriko Arita · Akira Ishihama

Plot A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.