Soundtrack: Ryôichi Hattori

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ichirô Ryûzaki · Mieko Takamine · Haruo Tanaka · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Before the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She's a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Joji Oka · Takako Irie · Ranko Hanai · Heihachiro Okawa

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Sugi

Plot In an all-girls school in postwar Japan, a group of students harass a new girl who's been seen outside school with a boy. The teacher, a young modern woman, scolds...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Hideko Takamine · Katsuhiko Haida · Shinsho Kokontei · Shizuko Kasagi

Plot "Ginza Cancan Girl" - a mixture of American musical movie and the modesty of Japanese cinema. Hideko Takamine was already a successful singer with this very popular hit song.

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Cheng Pei-Pei · Lily Ho · Chin Ping · Ling Yun

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kyû Sazanka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Kyoji Sugi · Saburô Bôya

Direction Masahiro Makino · Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Hajime Izu · Tatsuo Saito

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yuji Hori · Chiaki Tsukioka · Shizuko Kasagi · Yumeji Tsukioka

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Won Ling · Lily Ho · Fan Yang · Chen Hung-Lieh

Plot A talented but reckless young longshoreman Sun Chi-Chiang from the wrong side of the docks gets a chance to achieve showbiz stardom as the Krupka-esque 'Thunder King Drummer' with a...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sanae Takasugi · Ryo Ikebe · Yôko Sugi

Direction Wong Tin-Lam

Cast Grace Chang · Lui Tat · Liu Enjia · Ma Hsiao-Nung

Plot Adapted from Bizet's opera Carmen and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, The Wild, Wild Rose is undoubtedly one of the classics in the Hong Kong cinema in every sense...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryuji Kita · Sonosuke Sawamura · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Mako Midori · Akihiro Miwa · Hajime Hana · Osami Nabe

Plot Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Sonosuke Sawamura · Toyo Takahashi · Harue Akagi

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Chizuru Kitagawa · Machiko Kyô · Teruko Akatsuki · Chiharu ôtomo

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Shizuko Kasagi · Kyû Sazanka · Kiiton Masuda

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Izumi Yukimura · Kyoko Aoyama · Keiju Kobayashi · Momoko Kôchi

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Sugi

Plot In an all-girls school in postwar Japan, a group of students harass a new girl who's been seen outside school with a boy. The teacher, a young modern woman, scolds...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Akira Takarada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kyôko Anzai

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori · Takako Irie · Kyôko Kagawa