Cinematography: Kimio Watanabe

Direction Yukio Mishima · Domoto Masaki

Cast Yukio Mishima · Yoshiko Tsuruoka

Plot Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima predicted his own suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking. All prints of Patriotism (Yukoku), which depicts the seppuku (ritual suicide)...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Atsuko Kindaichi · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Keizo Kawasaki · Toyomi Karita · Bin Yagasawa · Shozo Nanbu

Plot UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara · Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Yuzo Hayakawa · Kiyoko Hirai

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Koji Tsuruta · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Fujita

Plot A highly esteemed student falls for Otsuta, a geisha.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ayako Wakao · Raizô Ichikawa · Eiji Funakoshi

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Kaneko Iwasaki · Kumeko Urabe · Michiko Ai

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Chikage Awashima · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Ryuuji Shinagawa

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuo Hanabu · Fumiko Okamura

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Jun Negami · Masayuki Mori · Ayako Wakao · Hisako Yamane

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Keizo Kawasaki · Yosuke Irie · Shûji Sano

Plot A 1958 Teinosuke Kinugasa adaptation of an Izumi Kyoka novel.

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Osamu Takizawa · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Ineko Arima · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroko Machida · Osamu Maruyama

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Mayumi Kurata · Raizô Ichikawa · Natsuko Kahara · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot Remake of Naruse Mikio's 1943 The Song Lantern.

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Masayo Banri · Mitsuko Han'ya · Hiroko Hanai · Gen Harada

Plot At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a businessman named Tsuruko...