Cast: Michiko Araki

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Yoshisuke Kawasaki

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Toshio Hosokawa · Michiyo Kogure

Plot Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Mariko Okada · Sachiko Tooyama · Kyoko Aoyama

Plot After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

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 Yôichi Higashi

Cast Reiko Ohara · Kaoru Kobayashi · Reiko Nakamura · Kenzo Kawarazaki

Plot Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi’s younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ken Mitsuda · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Akiko Tamura · Hiro Kumon

Plot A three-part film based on short stories about the struggles of women in the early Meiji era. Part 1 tells of a young woman returning home for the first time...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Jun Hamamura · Daigo Kusano

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ken Ogata · Kayo Matsuo · Eiko Azusa

Plot Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Hitomi Nakahara · Eiji Okada · Isao Kimura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Daisuke Kato

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Hiroki Matsukata · Jūzō Itami · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot Action drama about "human torpedoes" used during the Second World War.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Chikage Awashima · Aiko Mimasu · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Sumiko Fuji · Michiko Araki

Plot Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada (Takakura) goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Takeo Chii · Katsuhiko Sasaki · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Ken Takakura · Tamao Nakamura · Michiko Araki · Michimaro Otabe

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Michiko Araki · Eitarô Shindô · Hisaya Morishige