Cast: Gen Shimizu

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Plot It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan,...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Plot 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takeshi Katô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura

Plot A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Plot Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Plot Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved,...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Nick Adams · Akira Takarada · Jun Tazaki · Akira Kubo

Plot Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Kyôko Anzai · Chishu Ryu · Asami Kuji

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Hara · Yosuke Natsuki · Chiemi Eri

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 Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ryuzo Shimada · Yoshiro Kitahara · Tamao Nakamura

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sô Yamamura · Ryo Ikebe · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Minosuke Bando · Toshio Chiba · Yoichi Funaki · Seishirô Hara

Plot War-time jidai-geki from Ito Daisuke.

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Jun Negami · Yasuko Kawakami · Haruyo Ichikawa

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Hibari Misora · Jun Tazaki · Hiroshi Nawa · Jûshirô Konoe

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Wakayama · Asami Kuji

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yuriko Hoshi · Daisuke Kato · Reiko Dan

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Saburo Date · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Yoshio Harada · Atsuo Nakamura · Kayo Matsuo · Sanae Kitabayashi

Plot Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Hisaya Morishige · Seizaburô Kawazu · Jun Tazaki

Direction Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Haruo Tanaka · Joji Oka · Gen Shimizu

Plot A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.