Screenplay: Hisashi Yamauchi

Direction Shôhei Imamura

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

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Sachiko Hidari · Yôko Minamida · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot When man-about-town Saheiji (the beloved comedian Frankie Sakai) finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt....

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Yôko Minamida · Masao Mishima · Hiroyuki Nagato

Plot Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Junko Mihara · Kie Nakai · Nana Okada · Eri Ishida

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Plot Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu,...

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Shima Iwashita · Tomokazu Miura · Kinya Kitaoji

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Saburi · Kinya Kitaoji

Plot Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Ichirô Izawa · Yôko Katsuragi

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hajime Hana · Hiroshi Inuzuka · Toyoko Takechi · Chieko Baisho

Plot Based on one famous Rakugo comic stories, Un ga yokerya (Gambler's Luck) is a light comedy set in the slums of old Edo.