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

Synopsis 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 dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

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

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 the murderer and chaos ensues.

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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, was a cry for humanism in an age marching toward...

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

Synopsis 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 too clever and is expected by her teachers to enter...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

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

Synopsis 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 lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

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

Synopsis A samurai vengeance drama involving Christianity.