Cast: Saburô Sawai

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura

Plot In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Shôji Nakayama · Joji Oka · Minoru Takada

Direction Katsuhiko Kondo

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Kanta Kisaragi · Yônosuke Toba · Kiyoko Hanashima

Plot The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film’s incredible climax, when Enoken fends off...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Taizô Fuyushima

Cast Reiko Aoi · Hiromitsu Aoki · Kitsunosuke Bando · Kotaro Bando

Plot Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôzô Fuyuki · Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Rei Ishikawa

Plot Based on a Tokushima folktale about a former resident who returns for the Awa Odori (Awa Dance).

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Ranko Hanai · Hisako Yamane · Jun Fujio · Kokuten Kôdô

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Plot 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....

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Jun Tazaki · Hisako Takihana · Kyôko Kagawa

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Chieko Takehisa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Ryuko Umezono · Shinjirô Asano

Direction Toshio Shimura

Cast Michiko Maeda · Ken Utsui · Shigeru Amachi · Saburô Sawai

Plot A melodramatic thriller set on an isolated island about a woman seeking revenge for her dead lover.

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Ranko Hanai · Kazuo Hasegawa · Kimie Hayashi · Asataro Ichikawa

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Jûzaburô Akechi · Jun Tazaki · Keiko Hibino · Akemi Tsukushi

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Yataro Kurokawa · Ranko Hanai

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yataro Kurokawa · Ureo Egawa

Direction Katsuhiko Kondo

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Nobuko Satsuki · Masako Tsutsumi · Jûshirô Kobayashi

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Hideko Takamine · Atsushi Watanabe · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Saburô Sawai

Plot My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest problem: His daughter Hideko is...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kinuyo Tanaka · Sensho Ichikawa · Akitake Kôno

Plot After a renowned archer commits harakiri because he’s lost the big tournament, innkeeper Kinuyo Tanaka takes in his boy and sees to his training so he can compete in the...