Soundtrack: Ikuma Dan

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akihiko Hirata · Akira Kubo

Plot In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Frankie Sakai · Akira Takarada · Yuriko Hoshi · Nobuko Otowa

Plot This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Takashi Kanda · Yoshi Kato · Isao Kimura · Koichi Nishimura

Plot Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hajime Hana · Hiroshi Inuzuka · Shima Iwashita · Kei Tani

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Kishi · Yuji Hori

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Daisuke Kato · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hideko Takamine · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Jûkichi Uno · Eijirô Tono

Plot A young woman, cheated into becoming a middle-aged man's mistress in order to support her old father, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi · Koji Mitsui · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Junzaburo Ban · Chikage Awashima

Plot A longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Direction Tadashi Imai · Satsuo Yamamoto · Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Shinsuke Ashida · Yasumi Hara · Takashi Kanda · Kunio Mita

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa

Plot A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Masao Mishima · Hisaya Morishige · Miki Odagiri

Plot Set and filmed in the mountain regions of Fukushima, Policeman's Diary looks at Japanese peasants through the eyes of several policemen. Life seems to be untainted by the outside world...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Keiko Kishi · Eiji Okada · Keiju Kobayashi · Koji Mitsui

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Yôko Tsukasa · Haruo Tanaka

Plot The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director,...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Akira Kubo · Hiroshi Tachikawa · Kyoko Aoyama · Fubuki Koshiji

Plot Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper’s daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy...

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Norihei Miki · Fukutarô Ichikawa · Nobuo Chiba · Reiko Dan

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Jiro Tamiya · Keizo Kawasaki · Kyôko Enami

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Eiji Funakoshi · Hiroshi Akutagawa

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Yasuko Kawakami · Yûko Mochizuki · Keiko Fujita · Yuko Yashio

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toru Koyanagi · Toshirô Mifune · Yosuke Natsuki · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of...