Cast: Ryûtarô Nagai

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Hisako Yamane · Meiko Nakamura · Entatsu Yokoyama

Direction Katsuhiko Kondo

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Kanta Kisaragi · Yônosuke Toba · Kiyoko Hanashima

Plot The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film’s incredible climax, when Enoken fends off...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Isamu Eto · Kazuo Hasegawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Taizô Fukami

Plot Historical war film set during Japan's sengoku ("warring states" or "civil war") period.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Isuzu Yamada · Sadao Maruyama · Zenichiro Kito

Direction Taizô Fuyushima

Cast Reiko Aoi · Hiromitsu Aoki · Kitsunosuke Bando · Kotaro Bando

Plot Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

Direction Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Kitsunosuke Bando · Satoko Date · Kyôzô Fuyuki · Kikuko Hanaoka

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôzô Fuyuki · Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Rei Ishikawa

Plot Based on a Tokushima folktale about a former resident who returns for the Awa Odori (Awa Dance).

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kinshirô Matsumoto · Hiroshi Nawa · Kotobuki Hananomoto · Rintarô Fujima

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Taizô Fukami · Hisako Hara · Nobuo Kaneko · Minako Katsuki

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Hideko Takamine · Michiko Aikawa · Mitsuko Hirokawa

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Toru Abe · Akitake Kôno · Taiji Tonoyama · Jûzaburô Akechi

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Shizue Natsukawa · Ichiro Sugai · Haruko Sugimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

Plot Other film-makers simply ignored national policy. Shiro Toyoda's 1940 Spring on Lepers' Island (Kojima no Haru), based on a female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony,...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Ranko Hanai · Kazuo Hasegawa · Kimie Hayashi · Asataro Ichikawa

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Yataro Kurokawa · Ranko Hanai

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yataro Kurokawa · Ureo Egawa

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Hideko Takamine · Atsushi Watanabe · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Saburô Sawai

Plot My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest problem: His daughter Hideko is...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ureo Egawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Shoji Kiyokawa · Tamae Kiyokawa

Plot Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ranko Hanai · Yataro Kurokawa · Yônosuke Toba

Plot A samurai vengeance drama involving Christianity.