Soundtrack: Taichirô Kosugi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kenji Sugawara · Keizo Kawasaki · Sadako Sawamura

Plot Early Masumura is contemporary with late Douglas Sirk -- both harnessed garish fifties modernism for a scathing, full-color portrait of ambition in the new middle class. In Blue Sky Maiden,...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chizuru Kitagawa · Yuriko Tashiro

Plot A film about the misadventures of an alcoholic samurai who feels insecure about himself.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Miwa Takada · Eiko Taki · Kichijiro Ueda

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Sanae Nakahara · Machiko Hasegawa

Plot Nemuri Kyoshiro this time gets involved in a plot to replace the shogun successor.

Direction Yugo Serikawa

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Mari Shiraki · Masumi Okada · Shoji Yasui

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Jô Shishido · Tamio Kawaji

Plot The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Ken Takakura · Rentarô Mikuni · Kyôko Kagawa · Ineko Arima

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Chieko Matsubara · Tetsuya Watari · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Hiroko Ogi

Plot At the end of the Meiji era, when the new criminal law was enacted, Masaru Asakusa, a former Masaruro Bashigo, declined to retire on this occasion and decided to announce...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni · Teruo Matsuyama · Hideko Okiyama

Plot In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yusuke Kawazu · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Saori Maki

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yuriko Hoshi · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Kôji Wada · Tamio Kawaji · Chikako Miyagi

Plot Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eiji Okada · Eijirô Tono · Takashi Shimura

Plot A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Shigeru Amachi · Shiho Fujimura · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Chikage Awashima · Hiromi Hanazono · Kensaku Hara · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hisako Tsukuba · Masumi Okada · Mari Shiraki

Direction Shinji Murayama

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kyôsuke Machida · Akira Kobayashi · Renji Ishibashi