Screenplay: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Direction Morio Asaka · Shigeyuki Miya · Tetsurō Araki · Ryosuke Nakamura

Plot An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Laurence Harvey · Claire Bloom · Edward G. Robinson

Plot A Mexican bandit, Juan Carrasco, spies a newlywed couple journeying through rugged country. He confronts them, rape and robbery on his mind, and the husband ends up dead. From the...

Direction Hiroyuki Nakano

Cast Shun Oguri · Yuki Shibamoto · Kei Tanaka · Kyôsuke Yabe

Plot TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he...

Direction Tony Au

Cast Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Yasuko Tomita · Lau Shun · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Noburô Ôfuji

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Rentarô Mikuni · Minoru Chiaki

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Osceola Archer · Michael Higgins · Oskar Homolka · Carol Lawrence

Direction Hisayasu Sato

Cast Kaori Sakagami

Plot Takehiro and his beautiful wife Masago are attacked by a thief, Tajomaru. He rapes Masago in front of Takehiro, then kills him. He is arrested, sentenced and beheaded by the...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Machiko Kyô · Shinjiro Ebara · Tanie Kitabayashi · Kiyoshi Kodama

Direction Lee Sang-il

Cast Haruka Igawa · Yutaka Matsushige

Direction M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul

Cast Ananda Everingham · Chermarn Boonyasak · Mario Maurer · Pongpat Wachirabunjong

Plot In this adaptation of the Japanese film Rashomon, a young monk leaves town to seek his father’s counsel after being disturbed by the murder trial testimony of the bandit Singh...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Eisei Amamoto · Yôko Naito · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura

Plot The cruel and egoistical daymio Horikawa demands Korean master painter Yoshihide to decorate the walls of his new temple with a mural of Buddhist paradise, but Yoshihide refuses, insisting that...