Cinematography: Minoru Yokoyama

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shoji Yasui · Jun Hamamura · Taketoshi Naitô

Plot July, 1945: Japan's army is on the run. A platoon in Burma sings to keep its spirit up. Inspiration comes from their self-taught lute player, Mizushima. At war's end, while...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Toru Abe · Shinsuke Ashida · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mie Kitahara

Plot A talented young artist painted a picture of Wakako Kyogoku when she was a little girl. The piece was entitled “Girl” and Wakako held it dear to her heart. Years...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Takahashi

Plot A student on vacation meets a teenage dancer who is a member of a league comic company. Both young people fall in love.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Hisaya Morishige · Mie Kitahara · Ko Mishima

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jûshirô Konoe · Tamao Nakamura · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yukiko Shimazaki · Kazuo Masubuchi · Chieko Nakakita · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin...

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Mihoko Inagaki · Toshio Sugiyama

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Sachiko Hidari · Hiroshi Kondô · Mari Shiraki

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Izumi Ashikawa · Mari Shiraki · Tomio Aoki

Plot The Perfect Game is a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. College students come up with...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Jun Tazaki · Michitaro Mizushima · Yôko Sugi

Plot This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part...

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Eiji Gô · Akira Kobayashi · Yûji Odaka · Chieko Matsubara

Plot A mysterious man who calls himself Macau Dragon disembarks in the port of Yokohama ready to buy a huge diamond that has been stolen by Aizu, the leader of a...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Tamio Kawaji · Mie Kitahara · Misako Watanabe

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Hisaya Morishige · Mie Kitahara · Minoru Chiaki

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Asami Kuji · Koreya Senda

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Masako Izumi · Chieko Tôyama

Plot Re-make of the film with same title made in 1953 by Tadashi Imai. Story about young girl students who were mobilised as nurses to the Island of Okinawa, None of...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Susumu Fujita · Yuji Hori · Harue Tone

Plot A robber tries to escape from the police to the wilderness of Hokkaido. He hires a young woman to pretend to be his wife. After learning his true identity, she...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Tamio Kawaji · Eiji Gô · Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yôko Minamida · Tamio Kawaji · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Akemi · Satoko Date · Roppa Furukawa · Kikuko Hanaoka

Plot A mother looks to free herself form the burden of her three children.