Cast: Mitsuo Nagata

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sanae Takasugi · Tomie Tsunoda · Mitsuo Nagata

Plot Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Fusako's tenuous grasp on meaningful life is shaken when she learns that her lover...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sô Yamamura · Sugisaku Aoyama · Kyoko Asagiri

Plot The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Minoru Oki · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Kyôsuke Machida

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Choko Iida · Chishu Ryu

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kôkichi Takada · Michiko Saga · Miki Morita · Jûshirô Konoe

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Toshiko Kobayashi · Masayuki Mori · Sadako Sawamura

Plot In a wealthy family, a mother and her grown-up children are a happy and colourful group people, each with their own dreams and aspirations. But these are ultimately quashed by...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kôkichi Takada

Plot During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

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

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kinshirô Matsumoto · Akiko Koyama · Ushio Akashi · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Kokichi Uchide

Cast Hiroshi Aoyama · Masao Aoyama · Michiyo Azuma · Rintarô Fujima

Plot During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kuniko Miyake · Setsuko Wakayama · Yôko Katsuragi · Koji Tsuruta

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Hibari Misora · Michitaro Mizushima · Mitsuko Mito · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Kinuyo Tanaka · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Koshiro Matsumoto · Isuzu Yamada · Michiko Saga · Miki Morita

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Yataro Kitagami · Hibari Misora · Keiko Awaji · Ryôsuke Kagawa