Screenplay: Masashige Narusawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Aiko Mimasu · Ayako Wakao · Michiyo Kogure

Plot Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Sô Yamamura · Eitarô Shindô

Plot In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tomoemon Otani · Yoshiko Kuga · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Fujita · Hibari Misora · Yasushi Sasaki

Plot The "Unperishable Sword" is a story based on the novel by Renzaburo Shibata. A complicated tale with dynamic characters, make this samurai who seeks revenge for the death of his...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Isao Kimura · Yukiyo Toake · Kaneko Iwasaki

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Machiko Kyô · Koji Tsuruta · Michiko Ono · Kazuko Ichikawa

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni · Satomi Oka · Yumiko Hasegawa

Plot A meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity that has deadly consequences.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Yutaka Nakajima · Toshio Shiba · Aki Yashiro · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same time, she gives...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Akiko Kazami · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura

Plot First episode of the Miyamoto Musashi saga directed by Tomu Uchida. In this episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Michiyo Kogure · Rentarô Mikuni · Toshitaka Itô

Plot The story of a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his struggling mother.

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Kazuaki Komiya · Koji Kosugi · Machiko Kyô

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Ayako Wakao · Gaku Yamamoto · Eitarô Ozawa · Hisano Yamaoka

Plot Otama lives in poverty with his old father. Until a neighbor acts as an alcahueta and presents her to Suezo, a rich merchant of kimonos, married and with children, who...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Chikage Awashima · Aiko Mimasu · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Hiroshi Koizumi · Asami Kuji

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hideko Takamine · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Jûkichi Uno · Eijirô Tono

Plot A young woman, cheated into becoming a middle-aged man's mistress in order to support her old father, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Kusuo Abe · Kensaku Hara · Michimaro Kotabe