Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Michiyo Kogure · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Yuko, a beautiful young girl, is sold to a brothel in Kyoto by her father in order to feed the family and cover for the expenses of her mother's illness....

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 Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Chishu Ryu · Teruko Kishi · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Katsuragi

Plot A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they are replacing.

Direction Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast Reiko Nanjo · Daisuke Ryû · Kinya Kitaoji · Hatsunori Hasegawa

Plot A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Susumu Fujita · Hideko Takamine · Nobuo Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Minoru Oki · Takahiro Tamura · Seiji Miyaguchi · Hideko Takamine

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Akihiko Hirata

Plot Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Yôko Katsuragi · Takao Ito · Seiji Miyaguchi · Chikako Hosokawa

Plot A short, confrontational tale about an affair between a student and a married woman. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor and because of the age...

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Isamu Nagato · Tetsurô Tanba · Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Chikage Awashima · Chishu Ryu · Haruko Sugimura

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Rumiko Koyanagi · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Tetta Sugimoto · Isao Natsuyagi

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Noboru Andô · Violet Pan · Koji Nambara · Takamaru Sasaki