Cast: Yusuke Takita

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Shima Iwashita · Kamatari Fujiwara · Jun Hamamura

Plot Shinoda's interesting film is a generally faithful adaptation of a play by Chikamatsu, preserving all the theatrical conventions of the puppet theatre original, and even trumping that level of artifice...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Plot The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shima Iwashita · Hiroko Isayama · Kô Nishimura

Plot Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees tells the tale of a beautiful city woman and a bandit that has fallen in love with her. After kidnapping the object of his affection...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Mariko Okada · Junko Ikeuchi · Mayumi Ozora

Plot A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Mayumi Wakamura · Yuki Tanaka · Norikatsu Nagano · Misako Watanabe

Plot A fictional film that is nonetheless inspired by an account of two Japanese soon-to-be kamikaze pilots has the two stop by a local school near their base one last time...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Junko Kano · Tazuko Niki · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Hirochika Muraishi · Kyôta Kawasaki · Shingo Matsubara · Tsugumi Kitaura

Cast Hiroshi Nagano · Takami Yoshimoto · Akitoshi Ohtaki · Shigeki Kagemaru

Plot A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kayo Matsuo · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Oguso

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Ken Ogata · Mayumi Ogawa · Yuzo Hayakawa

Plot Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Plot A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Kyôko Enami · Michiyo Oguso · Mako Sanjô · Bontarô Miake

Direction Yoshiro Kawazu

Cast Shima Iwashita · Keisuke Sonoi · Michiyo Aratama · Keiji Sada

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoto Ogata · Masao Hayashi · Ryuzo Hayashi

Direction Tarô Yuge

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hideo Takamatsu · Kazuko Miyakawa

Direction Tetsutaro Murano

Cast Hisashi Igawa · Yûko Katagiri · Atsuko Kawaguchi · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Plot Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter’s onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Masayo Utsunomiya · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Masaki Kyômoto · Harue Kyô

Plot To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mayumi Ogawa · Yusuke Takita

Plot Hamajima is a quiet, hard-working man, whose life changes drastically when he reunites with a lovely childhood friend and her strange little boy.