Screenplay: Tomiko Miyao

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Synopsis 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 in business but respected by the poor because of his...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Synopsis 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 of Kobe to release her from a violent father, along...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

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

Synopsis 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 housework, attends art school.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

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

Synopsis 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 family's sake business.

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Synopsis 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 killed under his eyes. Now he is a zegen aka...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

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

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