Soundtrack: Seiichi Suzuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ranko Hanai · Yuji Hori · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot This is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot 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...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Toru Abe · Mikijiro Hira · Yoshio Inaba · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Hisako Yamane · Meiko Nakamura · Entatsu Yokoyama

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot 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 Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Shoji Kiyokawa · Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie

Plot The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Michiyo Kogure · Jûshirô Konoe

Plot Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo,...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hitomi Nakahara · Yumiko Hasegawa · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The story of adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Chikage Awashima · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Plot Samurai Kochiyama Soshun helps Kaneko Ichinosuke avenge the death of Kaneko’s father who was wrongly accused of embezzling, hoping that in return Kaneko takes geisha Michitose, the presumed sister of...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Daisuke Kato · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yumeko Aizome · Tsumasaburo Bando

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Roppa Furukawa · Kenichi Enomoto · Entatsu Yokoyama · Achako Hanabishi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Hideko Takamine · Hisako Yamane · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Kinuyo Tanaka · Isuzu Yamada · Keiji Sada

Plot A 1951 jidai-geki from Ito Daisuke with Bando Tsumasaburo and Tanaka Kinuyo. Based on a serialized novel by Osaragi Jiro.

Direction Bin Kado

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kaoru Yachigusa · Tamao Nakamura · Michiko Ai

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Kôkichi Takada · Osamu Takizawa · Koji Tsuruta

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Eitarô Shindô · Masahiko Tsugawa

Plot Jirochô and his men host a group of starving sumo fighters, who end up performing an exhibition while a yakuza bosses' meeting takes place.

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Gantama Ashinoya · Juro Hayashida · Yoshiko Inoue · Hideko Kasahara