Cast: Kenjirô Uemura

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Miki Sanjo · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiancée and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Mari Shiraki · Masumi Okada · Shoji Yasui

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yuko Hamada · Kyooko Azuma · Saburo Date

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Kazuo Hasegawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Plot Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Companion piece to Kinugasa's more famous Gate...

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Izumi Yukimura · Roppa Furukawa · Akihiko Katayama · Tadao Takashima

Plot A young orphan newly arrived in Tokyo, harassed by police and gangsters, finds protection among members of a jazz group.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Akiko Chiaki · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroko Machida · Tetsuko Orihara

Direction Kiyohiko Ushihara

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Teruko Akatsuki · Katsuko Wakasugi · Susumu Atsumi

Direction Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Miki Sanjo · Minoru Takada · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Plot A car strikes an unseen object; blood spreads from an invisible source which becomes visible as the bleeding man dies. He carries with him a suicide note dedicated to his...