Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Nakajirô Tomita, Yoshio Inaba, Ryûtarô Gomi
When a samurai requests a harakiri (samurai suicide) from a capitalist lord, he tells him the story of another samurai who came there a few days ago for the same thing, and the samurai also reveals the story of his meeting with the other samurai, and at the same time, questions the correctness of the lord's group.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Tani, Jun Ôtomo, Takamaru Sasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
During World War II, Kaji, a peace-loving man, travels to a small village with his wife, Michiko, to work as a supervisor in an iron mine to avoid being drafted into the army. When the military police send six hundred Chinese prisoners to work in the mine, Kenji talks to their leader to control the Khushan. But his methods upset the corrupt system there and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshi Katô, Torahiko Hamada, Hideko Takamine, Nobuko Otowa
In 1932, a woman whose fiancé is fighting in China is raped by the son of a large landowner returning from the war. After this incident, she is forced to marry a man and...
Stars: Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa, Mizuho Suzuki, Masao Shimizu
The lives of a master sculptor and his apprentice are changed forever after they get caught in a blizzard and meet a magical demon in the form of a snow lady.
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Nakakita, Shin'ichi Himori, Fumio Tooyama, Toshio Shimamura
A psychoanalytic film that is about the relationships of the members of a family and their understanding of the inability and ability to understand and communicate with each other, while each of them has their own weaknesses and strengths and they all run a beer shop.
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Keiko Awaji, Chieko Higashiyama, Koreya Senda, Kentarô Imai
A young student falls in love with a strange girl whom he can only watch from a distance in despair.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Teruo Matsuyama, Masayuki Mori, Kumeko Urabe, Akira Ishihama
A young woman becomes interested in a middle-aged man and a businessman, but things get complicated when he starts having feelings for his own wife.
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Junji Masuda, Chishû Ryû, Mutsuko Sakura, Akira Ishihama
A family is forced to move due to war, they are deprived of social and political rights in the new community.
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Shôzô Suzuki, Takashi Miki, Isao Suenaga, Nobuo Takagi
Before going to his new job in Hokkaido, Keizo returns to visit his family in his hometown. There, he meets Fuyoko, his teenage love, now a young widow.
Stars: Kuniko Miyake, Mutsuko Sakura, Ryôko Mizuki, Keijirô Morozumi, Yoshihide Satô
A young boy forgets his mother's advice and steps on the path of crime...
Stars: Mariko Taka, Ritsuo Sawa, Akira Ishihama, Chieko Murata, Masayoshi Nogami
Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through the building and finally slaying his mothers sister...
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Keijirô Morozumi, Toshio Shimamura, Keiji Tsuchida
The story is about a father and two teenage sons, and the rivalry between the two begins when they find girls attractive.
Stars: Kichijirô Ueda, Asao Koike, Akira Ishihama, Michiko Ai, Teruo Yoshida
A collection of stories about punishment towards women.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Tsushima, Yôko Katsuragi
The Kamiya family struggles to keep the town fishing association from going bankrupt as they deal with a dishonest captain and his degenerate crew.
