Cinematography: Seiichi Kizuka

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa

Plot Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self important barber who funds their show...

Direction Etienne Périer

Cast Carroll Baker · James Shigeta · James Yagi · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II... In 1930, while vacationing in Washington, D. C., Tennessee-born Gwen Harold falls in love with and...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Roppa Furukawa · Kenichi Enomoto · Entatsu Yokoyama · Achako Hanabishi

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Tokubei Hanazawa · Haruko Hirata · Kota Hirata · Hiroshi Ikeda

Plot Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Kinji Omino · Tamami Hojo

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ichiro Fujiyama · Musei Tokugawa · Noboru Kiritachi · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Rikie Sanjô · Momotarô Sekisekitei · Eitarô Shindô · Haryue Wakahara

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kumiko Jô · Yoshi Kato · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tanie Kitabayashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie · Kamatari Fujiwara · Sadako Sawamura

Plot The story begins in 1929 with Sugai ((Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. He works his way up, over the course of the narrative, from mirror-cleaner...

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto · Kenta Yamazaki · Teinosuke Kinugasa · Mikio Naruse

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yoshiko Kuga · Michiyo Kogure · Isao Numasaki

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Tsuruko Baba · Achako Hanabishi · Yuriko Hanabusa · Haruko Katô