Cinematography: Mutsuo Naganuma

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Rie Miyazawa · Nenji Kobayashi · Min Tanaka

Plot 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Plot Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Plot Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Direction Shintarô Katsu

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kanako Higuchi · Takanori Jinnai · Ryuutarô Gan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Eiko Shinya · Keiko Takeshita · Nae

Direction Shigemichi Sugita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Koichi Sato · Masatô Ibu · Yoshi Oida

Plot An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

Direction Genji Nakamura

Cast Yukari Usami · Kozue Saito · Rikako Murakami

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hiroshi Abe · Yuko Takeuchi · Shôfukutei Tsurube

Plot Helped by her nephew, Koji, Etsuko runs a lovely little seaside café where the locals like to gather, gossip and drink her delicious coffee. People with problems are somehow attracted...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Koichi Sato · Yuki Saito · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Shiho Fujimura

Plot A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Hiromi Gô · Shima Iwashita · Miyuki Ono · Kôichi Iwaki

Plot Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious jobs, illegal schemes, and brutal...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Ruriko Asaoka · Gin Maeda

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Keiji Mutô · Michiru Akiyoshi · Narumi Yasuda · Hide Demon

Plot A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera...

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Takehiro Murata · Kei Tani

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Shinobu Otake · Yuki Kuroda · Nenji Kobayashi · Casey Takamine

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Yuta Kanai · Hidekazu Akai · Rei Asami · Nenji Kobayashi

Direction Jôji Nagao · Hideo Onchi · Seijun Suzuki

Cast Taketoshi Naitô · Toni Pedecine

Plot An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers. Suzuki directed the third story about a woman who gets tired of waiting for her dream-boy to pay attention to her....

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Watanabe · Teruyuki Kagawa · Erika Toda · Shun Sugata

Plot A drama based on the 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the worst aviation event in Japanese history.

Direction Shingo Matsubara

Cast Kazuko Kato · Toshio Kamei · Zenzô Shimizu · Nahoko Arita

Direction Tamasaburo Bando

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kyoko Kataoka · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kirin Kiki

Plot Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to...

Direction Masaharu Takahashi

Cast Yû Hayami · Koichi Sato · Helen Myslinski Ingham · Shigeru Izumiya