Cast: Masaru Odaka

Direction Teruo Ishii

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ranko Hanai · Tsuruko Mano · Kinji Fujiwa · Soji Watari

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ken Uehara · Naoko Kubo · Miyuki Ueda · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kumeko Otowa · Yoshio Kosugi · Sadako Sawamura

Plot An early, wartime take on the Japanese "Idol" movie. Young-Girl-Star Hideko Takamine plays a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Setsuko Hara · Minoru Takada · Yuriko Hanabusa · Masaru Odaka

Plot There is a family called Matsumura in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture. The family hosts flight cadets every weekend. Students spend time discussing the life of a pilot and go through a...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Keiko Hibino · Misako Uji · Kodayu Ichikawa

Plot Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating...

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Hideko Takamine · Musei Tokugawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Shiro Mizutani

Plot A girl living in a poor neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, Japan. Its prospects are, like those of the rest of the family, not very rosy. Her teacher noted, however, her...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie · Kamatari Fujiwara · Sadako Sawamura

Plot The story begins in 1929 with Sugai ((Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. He works his way up, over the course of the narrative, from mirror-cleaner...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Kikuko Hanaoka · Misako Uji · Eiichi Nobuo

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Fumio Hara · Hajime Hikari · Tadami Inoue · Miyako Ishigami

Plot A 1942 Jidaigeki by the verteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibō Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is a man). The film climaxes...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Yôko Mihara · Taiji Tonoyama · Daisuke Kato · Shigeru Amachi

Direction Gorô Kadono

Cast Jûzaburô Akechi · Katsuko Wakasugi · Kyôko Yashiro · Masayo Banri

Plot The film begins strongly, with an atmospheric opening sequence, predating John Carpenter's The Fog by two decades, of shuffling ghost-like zombies, blood streaming from their faces, rising from the waves...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yôko Yaguchi · Kyôko Kusajima · Masao Mishima · Eitarô Ozawa