Cast: Sen Yano

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Plot The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuji Miyake · Aki Takejô

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Keiko Awaji · Chikage Ogi · Takashi Shimura

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast José Torres · Hisashi Igawa · Sen Yano

Plot Teshigahara studied under Kamei Fumio and demonstrated his belief that documentary is a subjective creation by its director in his short film Jose Torres (1959). His subsequent documentaries and dramatic...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Ichirô Nakatani · Mayumi Ogawa · Gaku Yamamoto

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yukiyo Toake · Mayuko Wakamori · Tomoe Hiiro

Plot A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.

Direction Yoshiro Kawazu

Cast Shima Iwashita · Keisuke Sonoi · Michiyo Aratama · Keiji Sada