Cast: Takashi Shimura

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Asami Kuji · Takashi Shimura · Machiko Kitagawa

Plot Action drama about a married woman who has an affair with an escaped prisoner.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Noboru Andô · Sonny Chiba · Masumi Tachibana · Shingo Yamashiro

Plot Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Takashi Shimura · Ryûzaburô Mitsuoka · Yôichi Mizuhara · Eizaburô Sakauchi

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Kaichi Yamamoto · Tsumasaburo Bando · Chiezô Kataoka · Kikutaro Onoe

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yataro Kurokawa · Kenichi Enomoto · Takashi Shimura

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ayako Wakao · Ryo Ikebe · Takashi Shimura

Plot A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Danshirô Ichikawa · Shirley Yamaguchi

Plot Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Hayatenosuke has left behind his lover, Kano. In the camp, Hayatenosuke is...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Ryoko Nakano · Kichiemon Nakamura · Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune

Plot Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Masao Shimizu · Eijirô Yanagi

Plot Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Kyôko Enami · Shiho Fujimura · Kôji Fujiyama · Kojiro Hongo

Plot A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. A Japanese variation of the "Moby Dick" story.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Takashi Shimura · Kunio Tamura · Yôichi Mizuhara · Sumie Tsuki

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroki Matsukata · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kunitaro Sawamura · Kensaku Hara · Goro Abe

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Kikutaro Onoe · Goro Kawabe

Plot Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Isao Kimura · Keiko Tsushima · Takashi Shimura · Sonosuke Sawamura

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Sô Yamamura · Makoto Satô · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the...

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Takashi Shimura · Ichiro Sugai

Plot Shizue is a worker at a tissue paper factory that is somewhat attracted to Noshiro, a senior employee who comes from her own town. However, one day Shizue travels to...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Akio Kobori · Mariko Okada · Takashi Shimura · Kamatari Fujiwara

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eiji Okada · Eijirô Tono · Takashi Shimura

Plot A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners.