Cast: Sumao Ishihara

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 Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Michiyo Aratama · Takashi Shimura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot A yakuza man helps attacking a man out of obligation but also promise to take care of his family a he finds out the boss killed the man to get...

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 Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Michiko Ai · Teruyo Asagumo · Mirasaki Fujima · Setsuko Hama

Plot Ukifune is the story of its eponymous heroine, a beautiful young woman, and two remarkable Heian noblemen. Its events unfold 20 years after the death of Shining Prince Genji, and...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Isamu Kosugi · Tatsuo Saito · Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Michiko Ai · Kôichi Aihara · Ichirô Amano · Shinobu Araki

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Eiko Taki · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Jun Fujimaki

Plot A wandering yakuza in search for the man responsible for slicing up his father and an amateur samurai searching for the whereabouts of his own father are thrown together on...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Saburo Date · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Jutaru Hojo

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Shintarô Katsu · Michiko Ono

Plot A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura...