Cast: Fujie Satsuki

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Toshio Hosokawa · Yuriko Ejima · Takashi Wada · Fujie Satsuki

Synopsis The Mansion of the Ghost Cat (1958) follows the journey of a woman who, as the heir to a servant of a ruthless and brutal samurai, ventures back to her birthplace. Upon her return, she encounters a supernatural feline, inhabited...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura

Synopsis A Wicked Woman (Poisonous Woman Takahashi O-Den) (1958) unfolds in the bustling streets of 1870s Tokyo, where the protagonist, Den, resorts to theft to sustain her daughter from her first marriage and her ailing second husband. Her life takes a...

Direction Yoshihiro Ishikawa

Cast Shôzaburo Date · Hiroshi Hayashi · Noriko Kitazawa · Namiji Matsuura

Direction Morihei Magatani

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seiji Hara · Kazuo Harada · Rei Ishikawa

Synopsis The Bloody Sword of the 99th Virgin (1959) unfolds in the isolated mountains of Iwate Prefecture, a region often likened to the Ozarks of Japan. This horror thriller, directed by Magatani Morihei, delves into the lives of the mountain folk,...

Direction Masaki Môri

Cast Nagamasa Yamada · Jôji Ôhara · Seiji Hara · Noriko Kitazawa

Direction Morihei Magatani

Cast Yôko Mihara · Bunta Sugawara · Reiko Seto · Kuniko Yamamura

Synopsis Ama no bakemono yashiki (1959) follows the story of Yumi Aoyama, a young woman who has taken up the role of an Ama, a traditional Japanese female diver, to harvest oysters, shellfish, and occasionally, pearls from the shallow waters near...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ken Takakura · Shigemi Kitahara · Takashi Kanda · Kiwako Taichi