Cast: Aizo Tamashima

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Kyoko Asagiri

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kenjiro Ishiyama · Kikue Môri · Shôgo Shimada · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Yôko Katsuragi · Isao Kimura · Hibari Misora

Synopsis Postwar shomin-geki (working-class-everyday-life genre) directed by Chiba Yasuki.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kanjuro Arashi · Kitsuemon Arashi · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Saburo Date · Seizaburô Kawazu · Haruo Tanaka · Koji Tsuruta

Synopsis A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love...

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Synopsis Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

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

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Shinjiro Ebara · Tominosuke Hayama