Screenplay: Keinosuke Uegusa

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Isao Numasaki · Atsushi Watanabe · Ichiro Namiki · Ichiro Sugai

Plot Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ichirô Ryûzaki · Mieko Takamine · Haruo Tanaka · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Before the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She's a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Mariko Okada · Sachiko Tooyama · Kyoko Aoyama

Plot After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Ken Takakura · Rentarô Mikuni · Kyôko Kagawa · Ineko Arima

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Yôko Katsuragi · Isao Kimura · Hibari Misora

Plot Postwar shomin-geki (working-class-everyday-life genre) directed by Chiba Yasuki.

Direction Tomoharu Katsumata

Plot Melos, a Greek country man gets arrested accused of conspiracy against the king. The king gives him three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius the sculptor and...

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Hitomi Nakahara · Chieko Misaki · Tomoko Mayama · Shinjiro Tomita

Plot Interesting film about war from the point of view of a school class.

Direction Daisaku Shirakawa · Taiji Yabushita

Plot A monkey king who learns the secrets of magic goes on a spree and causes no end of aggravation for the gods, who finally imprison him. In order to make...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Satoshi Yamamura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle’s house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a...

Direction Masahiro Makino · Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Goro Abe · Kanjuro Arashi · Kunitaro Bando · Tokuma Dan

Plot Based on the Kurama Tengu character from Osaragai Jirō's novel (which later became a long-running film series), this one focuses on the episode between Kurama and Kakubei the Lion. Co-directed...

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Sudô · Hitomi Nakahara · Takashi Kanda · Ken Sawaaki