Soundtrack: Nakaba Takahashi

Direction Ryohei Arai

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Takaji Fukui · Kazuko Fushimi

Plot A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Ushio Akashi · Kyoko Aoyama · Kotaro Bando · Kaoru Futaba

Plot Wandering gambler movie filled with humor and compassion. An odd couple of a gangster and a masterless samurai becomes involved in a variety of events as they travel.

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Yoshio Yoshida · Akira Ôizumi · Masao Hori · Akira Kishii

Direction Harumi Mizuho

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ganjiro Nakamura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Kyû Sazanka

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kunitaro Sawamura · Kensaku Hara · Goro Abe

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Takashi Shimura · Eiji Takagi · Goro Abe

Plot Tells a highly fictionalized version of the story of Oda Nobunaga, the most brutal of Japan's three unifiers (the others were Toyotomi and Tokugawa).

Direction Bin Kado

Cast Michiko Ai · Kotaro Bando · Takako Irie · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Yachiyo Ôtori · Yuko Minami

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Tomoemon Otani · Jun Tazaki · Harue Tone · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Toshikazu Kôno

Cast Shinobu Araki · Teruyo Asagumo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Hideaki Onishi

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiezô Kataoka · Kotaro Satomi · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people look to Murasaki...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Yoshiko Fujishiro · Hiroko Sakuramachi · Sentarô Fushimi

Plot Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who's left him after a murder scandal and is back to her father's home. The father is tricked by...

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Shinjiro Ebara · Chie Ueki

Direction Ryohei Arai

Cast Takako Irie · Michiko Ai · Yoshitaro Sadato · Shôsaku Sugiyama

Plot Okoyo is Lord Arima's concubine. She becomes jealous of her apparent successor, Otaki, and begins torturing her, eventually killing the girl. Otaki's cat licks her mistress's blood and becomes a...

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Shinobu Chihara · Eijirô Kataoka · Kunio Kaga

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sonosuke Sawamura · Eijirô Kataoka · Haruo Tanaka

Plot Played to the hilt by Misora Hibari in a delightful performance highlighted by singing, dancing, and swordplay with a unique story within a story twist that starts to unfold in...

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Sessue Hayakawa · Mitsuko Miura · Shôsaku Sugiyama

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Eitarô Shindô · Shoji Kiyokawa · Minoru Takada

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kôkichi Takada · Michiyo Kogure · Ryûzaburô Nakamura · Noriko Kitazawa

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Sentarô Fushimi · Yumiko Hasegawa · Hiroko Mikasa