Soundtrack: Yuji Koseki

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Teruko Akatsuki · Saburô Bôya · Sachiko Hidari · Kyû Sazanka

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yumeko Aizome · Yuriko Hanabusa · Masao Inoue · Yoshiko Kawada

Plot Third film in a three part series. One day, a boy named Kuro arrives at the house on the hill, a home that a kindly man named Shu¯hei built for...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Akira Takarada · Akira Kubo · Misa Uehara · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Susumu Fujita · Keiko Tsushima · Eiji Okada

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Tomoshirô Otani · Kingorô Yanagiya · Akio Kobori · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Daisuke Kato · Nobuko Otowa · Mitsuko Kusabue

Plot Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, presumably as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while....

Direction Fumio Kamei

Plot In the middle of 1938, Kamei Fumio and his film crew got themselves attached to an infantry regiment which they followed around through China for about four months, filming their...

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Akemi · Satoko Date · Roppa Furukawa · Kikuko Hanaoka

Plot A mother looks to free herself form the burden of her three children.

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Noriko Honma · Bontarô Miake · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Kuniko Miyake · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot Sansako and Shinko are two friends whose respective boyfriends ask them to have sex. Shinko accepts, Sansako refuses ... but the consequences will not be easy for either of them.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Keiko Tsushima · Yuko Minami · Hideo Hongô