Cast: Sachiko Meguro

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hitomi Nozoe · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death,...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Plot Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mariko Kô · Shûji Sano · Edith Hanson

Plot Saeko, the daughter of a wealthy business man, meets Jôji on the plane, a flight attendant, and quickly falls in love with him. When Saeko starts gathering information about Jôji...

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Machiko Kyô · Minoru Oki · Junko Kano · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Gen Harada · Yuzo Hayakawa

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kyôko Kishida · Ayako Wakao · Keiji Aoyama

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 Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eiji Funakoshi · Yukiko Fuji · Daisuke Kato

Direction Tarô Yuge

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

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Direction Noriaki Yuasa

Cast Yuko Hamada · Sachiko Meguro · Yachie Matsui · Mayumi Takahashi

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Jun Negami · Fujiko Yamamoto · Kenji Sugawara · Mitsuko Mito

Plot Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya...