Cast: Kazunaga Tsuji

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Plot Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yasuyo Matsumura · Akiko Kurano · Yasuo Miyake

Plot Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother's clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka's brother followed the revoltionary's precept and acted, attempting on...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kazunari Ninomiya · Haru Kuroki · Tadanobu Asano

Plot Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Plot The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Jun Hamamura · Daigo Kusano

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Kazuhiro Nanba

Cast Nanako Matsushima · Hideaki Takizawa · Hitomi Kuroki · Naomi Nishida

Plot On the outside, Michi has a good life. She has good friends, a teaching career and a handsome fiancé. On the inside, however, she is empty. A fateful encounter with...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Ken Tanaka · Tomohiro Tanabe · Ken Matsuda · Haruhiko Urayama

Plot Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters....

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Eiko Nagashima · Nobuko Sendô · Junkichi Orimoto

Plot Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a Young bonze, begins to...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Noboru Matsuhashi · Kazunaga Tsuji · Anri · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Kokoro is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder scholar whom he calls "Sensei". Haunted by tragic secrets...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Rumiko Koyanagi · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Tetta Sugimoto · Isao Natsuyagi