Cinematography: Soichi Aisaka

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Miki Sanjo · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiancée and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Machiko Kyô · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Junko Kozakura

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Nihonyanagi · Sumiko Hidaka · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Raizô Ichikawa · Atsuko Kindaichi · Hideo Takamatsu

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Eiji Nakano · Isamu Kosugi · Taisuke Matsumoto · Shinobu Araki

Plot This tremendously stylish gangster film, about the love-hate relationship between a cop and a criminal who were childhood friends is Uchida’s finest surviving silent film. Its taut, terse style demonstrates...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Saburo Date · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Akihiko Katayama · Yukiko Todoroki · Kazuko Yoshida

Plot The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Mieko Kendo · Tokiko Mita · Rieko Sumi

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Yuji Ikeda · Chieko Soma · Osamu Arima

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Tamao Nakamura · Michiko Ono