Screenplay: Tomiko Miyao

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masako Natsume · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Yukiyo Toake · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Kenichi Hagiwara · Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Ken Ogata · Yukiyo Toake · Mariko Ishihara · Yûko Natori

Plot Iwago, a former wrestling champion, gets prosper from a somewhat shady business. Iwago's wife Kiwa, while dealing with this situation, should raise Kiku, a girl he bought at the port...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Mariko Okada · Yûko Natori · Morio Kazama · Kei Sato

Plot Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Yûko Asano · Sae Isshiki · Yui Natsukawa · Hidetoshi Nishijima

Plot In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Ken Ogata · Kimiko Ikegami · Atsuko Asano · Mitsuko Baisho

Plot 1933. 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter. They tried to run away together but they were caught and the woman was...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Yôko Minamino · Masahiro Takashima · Rino Katase

Plot A pimp and a young geisha are torn between their love for each other and the tradition that forbids their relationship.