Screenplay: Yôko Mizuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Mariko Okada · Chieko Nakakita

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiko Enonami · Kyôko Kagawa · Akihiko Katayama · Daisuke Kato

Plot A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Plot This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Yuji Hori

Plot In a village not far from Tokyo, Akaza and his wife Riki worry about their childrens' future. The eldest, Inokichi, is a gambler and a womaniser. The elder of the...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Yôko Sugi · Rentarô Mikuni · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Husband and Wife centers on the problems of young married life that, exacerbated by economic circumstances, can erupt into a full-scale breakup. Ken Uehara and Yoko Sugi star as the...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Plot "Her Brother" is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction. In...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yûko Kotegawa · Yoshiko Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba

Plot Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Keiji Sada · Miyuki Kuwano · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yuriko Hoshi · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Ayako Wakao · Michiyo Oguso · Eiji Funakoshi · Kei Yamamoto

Plot Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ken Mitsuda · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Akiko Tamura · Hiro Kumon

Plot A three-part film based on short stories about the struggles of women in the early Meiji era. Part 1 tells of a young woman returning home for the first time...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sanae Takasugi · Ryo Ikebe · Yôko Sugi

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Hitomi Nakahara · Eiji Okada · Isao Kimura

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Hitomi Nozoe

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shimo Akiko · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Ichirô Chiba · Ren Imaizumi

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Chieko Murata

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yasuko Sawaguchi · Miki Sakai · Kumiko Goto · Yuri Nakae

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Chocho Miyako · Choko Iida · Kumeko Urabe

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Susumu Fujita · Keiko Tsushima · Eiji Okada