Screenplay: Kazuo Kikuta

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Miki Sanjo · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiancée and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns...

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiro'o Fukazawa · Yuriko Hanabusa · Ikuko Hirano

Plot First film in a three part series. Dramatization of the popular radio drama of the same title. While searching for his one and only brother after returning home from WWII,...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Aiko Mimasu · Chinatsu Nakayama · Tadao Takashima · Hisako Hara

Plot A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who...

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Chikage Awashima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Akio Isono · Kyoko Kami

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Hiro'o Fukazawa · Yuriko Hanabusa · Ikuko Hirano

Plot Second film in a three part series. After building a house on the hill for war orphans, Shu¯hei goes to Tokyo to find his missing brother, Shu¯kichi. Although he cannot...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Hiroshi Koizumi · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Hiroshi Koizumi · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Keiko Awaji · Chikage Awashima · Kimie Hayashi · Shinichi Himori

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yumeko Aizome · Yuriko Hanabusa · Masao Inoue · Yoshiko Kawada

Plot Third film in a three part series. One day, a boy named Kuro arrives at the house on the hill, a home that a kindly man named Shu¯hei built for...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kichijiro Ueda · Jun Tazaki · Mariko Okada

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Atsuko Ichinomiya · Kyôko Mine · Chocho Miyako · Yûji Nanto

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Eitarô Ozawa · Ken Uehara · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu

Plot The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men who prey on them at the outset of the war. But the...