Cinematography: Takahashi Michio

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Eiji Okada · Bernard Fresson · Stella Dassas

Plot A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kenji Sugawara · Keizo Kawasaki · Sadako Sawamura

Plot Early Masumura is contemporary with late Douglas Sirk -- both harnessed garish fifties modernism for a scathing, full-color portrait of ambition in the new middle class. In Blue Sky Maiden,...

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Kojiro Hongo · Kyôko Enami · Yuzo Hayakawa · Takuya Fujioka

Plot After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog from Hell! Armed with a...

Direction Noriaki Yuasa

Cast Mach Fumiake · Yaeko Kojima · Yoko Komatsu · Keiko Kudo

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yukihiko Iwatare · Akihiko Yusa · Yoshiro Kitahara

Plot The mare of the Shiraishi, humble farmers, stop a foal they call Takeru. The little one of the family, Jirô, is crazy about Takeru, despite the fact that the foal...

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ken Utsui · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film.

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Machiko Kyô · Koji Tsuruta · Michiko Ono · Kazuko Ichikawa

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Hideo Fujino · Choko Iida · Sojin · Hiroko Kawasaki

Plot Under an obligation to his master, her husband took his master's sin of murder and run away. His wife is worried about him.

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ganjiro Nakamura · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot When the tailor Tsuruyoshi retires, his daughter Mariko reforms the place and transforms it into a bar. Mariko has three suitors, but doesn't know which one to decide on.

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Yoshiro Kitahara · Ryuuji Shinagawa · Hideo Takamatsu

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Kyôko Enami · Rieko Sumi

Plot Toshi, winner of a literary prize for an essay on sexuality, is against marriage. Maintains relations with two women at the same time: the sweet and homelike Seiko, and the...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kyôko Kishida · Ayako Wakao · Keiji Aoyama

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Kazuaki Komiya · Koji Kosugi · Machiko Kyô

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Chieko Murata · Ken Utsui · Yoshiro Kitahara

Plot Yumi is a company and, as a good woman born in August, she has a strong character. One day, driving in his sports car, he collides with the car of...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Chieko Soma · Ranko Hanai · Joji Oka · Eiji Funakoshi

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Plot Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a...

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Noriko Honma · Bontarô Miake · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Mitsuko Higashiyama · Akio Isono · Shusuke Ken · Tokuji Kobayashi

Plot Kinuyo (Kinuyo Tanaka) and Yasuo (Shin Saburi) lives in the neibourhood. Both are doctor but their parents are feud since their ancestor, whereas they both have interests to the other....

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot During the war, Osamu was fascinated by his neighbor Akiko at the music hall in Hibiya Park on the way to the reluctant matchmaking recommended by his brother and his...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Ayako Wakao · Joji Oka · Jûkichi Uno

Plot Japanese adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's classic "Lady Chatterley's Lover."