Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Sachio Sakai
The living conditions of Japanese people are bad. Even the samurai are unemployed. In the meantime, a village is attacked by bandits, and seven unemployed samurais get help for defense.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
The production line manager of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his driver's son is kidnapped, leaving him at a moral dilemma.
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Sachio Sakai
After learning that he has incurable cancer, an office manager tries to search for the meaning of life after thirty years.
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu
A cunning warrior comes to a city divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other in order to liberate the city.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sachio Sakai
A group of idealistic young people who decide to clean up corruption from their city are helped by a strange samurai who doesn't look like noble fighters...
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Sachio Sakai
Two farmers accompany a man and a woman through the enemy lines in exchange for gold. But they don't know that the man and the woman are actually a prince and his general...
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: Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Asao Koike, Jun Tatara, Yûzô Kayama, Chieko Nakakita
Akiko is a deaf woman who suffers a lot of problems due to this disability, and by marrying Katayama and having a child, these problems take a new form and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kaori Momoi, Hideo Murota
A pardoned thief who bears a strong resemblance to a samurai who is a warlord and is hired as his replacement. After the commander dies, he is forced to take over the army...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Jun Tatara, Toranosuke Ogawa, Hiroshi Hayashi
Mr. Etuka is an executive who tries to rebuild his life in a small room in an inn.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sachio Sakai, Gen Shimizu
Nobuko is a noble woman who suffers many tragedies throughout her life. She gets a son after her marriage, but her husband is killed in the war...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshi Katô, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a prostitute...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Mikijirô Hira, Bokuzen Hidari, Jun Tatara, Kyôichi Satô
"Shiba", a wandering samurai, encounters a group of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictator lord in the hope of reducing taxes. "Shiba" joins them and two traitorous samurai from the ruling guard named "Sakura" and "Kikiyo". The three outlaws find themselves in the middle of a life and death struggle...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa
After the master of the forty-seven samurai is tricked into committing suicide, they decide to avenge their master's death and reclaim his honor...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôsuke Natsuki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Naoya Kusakawa
A mother who raises her little son alone, goes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family and works in an inn. A boy becomes friends with a girl and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Chikako Hosokawa, Yuriko Hanabusa, Setsuko Horikoshi
A young woman comes of age and wishes to change her family's mentality towards today's life and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Noriko Sengoku, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is not happy living with Mimura, an unemployed engineer who is always drinking. She used to be in love with Hiroshi, but after Hiroshi's migration to France, their love was forgotten. Now he is back and...
