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: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Two sisters search for their missing mother, but the younger sister cannot come to terms with the fact that she was abandoned by her mother as a child...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Hisao Toake
A businessman gets into trouble with his eldest daughter because of her choice in a wife...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Takuzô Kumagai, Haruko Sugimura, Chikako Hosokawa
What is the life of a geisha after her beauty fades and she retires? Kim has saved her money and become a wealthy moneylender who spends her days collecting her debts. Even her best friends, her fellow geisha, are in debt. For all of them, the glory of their youth has passed and...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Isao Kimura, Toranosuke Ogawa, Yoshi Katô, Shun'ya Wazaki
When the fiancee of a salaried man commits suicide, he remembers the bloody history of his family who committed suicide because of their hard-hearted lord and...
Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Chieko Naniwa, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Sumiko Hidaka, Masao Oda
A rich man gets caught in the love affair of a prostitute...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Jun Ôtomo, Eiko Miyoshi, Nakajirô Tomita
The story is about a love triangle between a good-natured student, his clueless girlfriend and a petty criminal...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Nobuo Kaneko, Taiji Tonoyama, Kikue Môri, Kichiemon Nakamura
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders sacrifice their lives. However, this woman's husband blames himself for misleading his wife and trying to thwart the demand law...
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Toshio Shimamura, Nobuo Takagi, Toshio Hosokawa
A pregnant woman survives a failed double suicide. She has a child from a man who committed suicide with her and is no longer alive.
Stars: Takamaru Sasaki, Yoshi Katô, Hisao Toake, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
Tiko's new wife disappears on a business trip. He finds a postcard hidden in a book that may be a clue to his missing wife...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Tôru Minegishi, Daigo Kusano, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima
The life of three actors of the film will be exhibited. Each of them makes their choices according to an incident...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshi Katô, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake
A tea master and his daughter Ugin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares his opinion. The situation worsens when the Shogun bans Christianity.
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Toranosuke Ogawa, Fumio Watanabe, Yôko Katsuragi, Tatsuya Ishiguro
A botanist learns that a capitalist's company is threatening the local water supply.
