Screenplay: Tsuneo Tomita

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Synopsis Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the...

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Eiji Okada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akitake Kôno

Synopsis In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Synopsis Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Jun Tazaki · Haruo Tanaka · Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Wakayama

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji

Synopsis A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup exchange offering) involves the preparation of a still-alive fish to...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Shûji Sano · Etsuko Miyama · Keiko Tsushima · Teiji Takahashi

Synopsis It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives....

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Choko Iida · Gen Shimizu · Yotaro Katsumi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tomokazu Miura · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Muga Takewaki · Koji Takahashi · Nana Ozaki · Yuji Hori

Synopsis The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Nobuko Otowa · Haruo Tanaka · Yukiko Todoroki