Screenplay: Shinji Fujiwara

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Masumi Harukawa · Kô Nishimura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Yûko Kusunoki

Plot The film tells the story of a dull, plump housewife living in poverty with a common-law husband, his son by another woman, and his mother. When she is raped by...

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Plot A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shizuko Kasagi · Tomiko Hattori · Kayo Matsuo · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Mayumi Nagisa

Plot The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan. While working as a cook in a restaurant he also earns some...

Direction Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Kô Nishimura · Eiko Nagashima

Plot Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa

Plot Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Masao Wakahara · Kogiku Hanayagi · Sadako Sawamura · Ichimaru

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ichirô Nakatani · Kô Nishimura · Tomomi Satô

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Ryo Ikebe · Kyôsuke Machida · Mariko Kaga

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Yumiko Nogawa

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Koji Tsuruta · Mamoru Ogawa · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot A gang plans a big bank robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.