Screenplay: Tsutomu Minakami

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Koji Mitsui · Yoshi Kato

Plot A successful businessman's murderous past comes back to haunt him when a prostitute recognizes him as a killer.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Junichiro Yamashita · Tamao Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshio Harada · Tomoko Naraoka · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kei Sato · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Michiyo Kogure · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Yuko, a beautiful young girl, is sold to a brothel in Kyoto by her father in order to feed the family and cover for the expenses of her mother's illness....

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ganjiro Nakamura · Kunîchi Takami · Masao Mishima

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yoshiko Sakuma · Tanie Kitabayashi · Shoichi Ozawa

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Eiji Okuda · Kunie Tanaka · Tadashi Yokouchi

Plot A tragic love story about a prostitute, Yuko and Seijyun, a young trainee monk. Based on a novel by Tsutomu Minakami, a Naoki Prize winner.