Cinematography: Tadashi Iimura

Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada · Akira Takarada · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada

Plot In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Danshirô Ichikawa · Shirley Yamaguchi

Plot Soldiers Hayatenosuke Sasa and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Hayatenosuke has left behind his lover, Kano. In the camp, Hayatenosuke is...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Yoshiko Kuga · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Akira Kubo · Hisao Toake · Fumiko Honma

Plot Story of unhappy youths and the perils of a lack of sex education.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Hisaya Morishige · Seizaburô Kawazu · Asami Kuji

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Machiko Kitagawa · Shin Tokudaiji

Plot A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Akio Kobori · Fubuki Koshiji · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tomoemon Otani · Toshirô Mifune · Hisako Yamane · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Yaeko Mizutani · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yôko Tsukasa · Chieko Nakakita

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Hiroshi Koizumi · Fubuki Koshiji · Mariko Okada

Plot The film is set in a post-War Tokyo where two of its citizens are lovers who reunite after being separated by the war.

Direction Kenneth G. Crane · Ishirô Honda

Cast John Carradine · Russell Thorson · Robert Karnes · Morris Ankrum

Plot Japanese villagers worship a monster and his son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster and wind...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Daisuke Kato · Fubuki Koshiji · Jun Tazaki · Yu Fujiki

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chishu Ryu · Kinuyo Tanaka · Daisuke Kato · Akira Kubo

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Setsuko Hara · Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Sugi · Hisaya Morishige

Plot Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Akio Kobori · Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Setsuko Wakayama

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kichijiro Ueda · Jun Tazaki · Mariko Okada

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Akemi Negishi · Momoko Kôchi · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji. Directed by Ishirō Honda in 1955, the film was re-edited and dubbed in English in a 1958 U.S. release version called...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Roppa Furukawa · Kingorô Yanagiya · Ichirô Arishima