Cinematography: Kazuo Yamada

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Setsuko Wakayama · Seizaburô Kawazu · Jun Tazaki

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Asami Kuji · Yukiko Shimazaki · Haruko Sugimura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Shogoro Ichikawa · Izumi Yukimura

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Norihei Miki · Yasuko Nakada · Ichirô Arishima · Shin Morikawa

Direction Hideo Onchi

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Mitsuko Mori · Ichirô Arishima · Wakako Sakai

Plot Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Tomoshirô Otani · Kingorô Yanagiya · Akio Kobori · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Haruo Nakajima · Tomoemon Otani · Yukiko Shimazaki · Chieko Murata

Direction Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami's brother in the Middle East for transport...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Eisei Amamoto · Yôko Naito · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura

Plot The cruel and egoistical daymio Horikawa demands Korean master painter Yoshihide to decorate the walls of his new temple with a mural of Buddhist paradise, but Yoshihide refuses, insisting that...

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Akira Takarada · Bibari Maeda · Tomomi Sawa · Andrew Hughes

Plot An assassin goes on the trail of an international gold smuggling ring based in Japan.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ineko Arima · Hajime Izu · Mayuri Mokusho

Plot Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think...

Direction Mitsuo Murayama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shun Oide · Jiro Sakagami · Meiko Kaji

Plot Continuing the tradition of the Yojimbo movies, Mifune Toshiro stars as Toge Kujuro, a wandering ronin searching for his own fame and happiness. With a sense of justice, he travels...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toru Koyanagi · Toshirô Mifune · Yosuke Natsuki · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Okada · Rentarô Mikuni · Chieko Nakakita

Plot This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question "What is war?", showing the human bonds...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Setsuko Wakayama · Jun Tazaki · Seizaburô Kawazu