Cast: Shinji Tanaka

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Synopsis 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 over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

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

Synopsis 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 who gives her a lift isn’t content to drop her...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 their way.

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 a salaried position and settling down in the suburbs, but...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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 him by an uncle to help him dream about another...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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

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