Cast: Shinji Tanaka

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Noriko Arita · Shinji Tanaka · Takahiro Tamura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Shinji Tanaka · Masanori Horimoto

Plot Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Miyuki Kuwano · Yoshiko Kuga · Toshiko Kobayashi

Plot A young woman named Makoto is indulging her habit of hanging out in a bar, then cadging a ride home from some man she’s met. But this time the man...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Akiko Tamura · Koji Nambara

Plot Three robbers target a house inhabited by a young couple and mother-in-law, but each time they attempt a break-in an endless stream of visiting family, lodgers and friends gets in...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Kyoko Aoi · Michi Aoyama · Kamatari Fujiwara

Plot Machiko (Chieko Baisho) lives comfortably with her father, grandmother and two younger brothers while working at a cosmetics factory in Shitamachi. Her boyfriend Michio (Tamotsu Hayakawa) has dreams of landing...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Shinji Tanaka · Yûko Mochizuki

Plot Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Son of fishmongers, he lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. He has only the binoculars left to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Sadako Sawamura · Noriko Arita · Akira Ishihama

Plot A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.