Cast: Yuzo Harumi

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Plot A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata

Plot Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Utako Mitsuya · Shigeru Amachi · Yôko Mihara · Toshio Hosokawa

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Meiko Kaji · Hoki Tokuda · Makoto Satô · Yoshi Kato

Plot Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Jô Shishido · Kon Ohmura · Kiyoshi Hitomi · Tôru Yuri

Plot When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder...

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer....

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Nitani · Yasushi Suzuki · Michiyo Yokoyama

Direction Nozomu Yanase

Cast Jô Shishido · Ryoji Hayama · Reiko Sasamori · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Gorô Kadono

Cast Jûzaburô Akechi · Kanjuro Arashi · Kotaro Bando · Tôru Chiba

Plot After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Reiko Sasamori · Ryoji Hayama · Akira Yamanouchi