Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Susumu Fujita, Shôji Ôki, Minoru Chiaki, Shôbun Inoue
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army but is harassed by the veterans. During his service, he observed many brutalities in the army and protested against the mistreatment of new trainees...
Stars: Takehiko Ono, Toshiko Fujita, Minoru Yada, Miyuki Kojima, Takeo Chii
The story describes love for family, love for humanity. Kuruita Goro came to live in Hokkaido from Tokyo with a son and daughter...
Stars: Jun Fubuki, Takeo Chii, Chishû Ryû, Takashi Sasano, Hidetaka Yoshioka
One of the spin-offs of "From the North" tells the life story of "Fiyo".
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kamatari Fujiwara
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: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
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: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Mikijirô Hira, Machiko Kyô, Yoshie Minami
A businessman who suffered burns on his face in a laboratory fire was treated by a psychiatrist and received an extraordinary mask from him. After a short time, he deceived his wife and succeeded. But his wife claims to have known about his true identity all this time and
Stars: Miyuki Kojima, Takeo Chii, Ryôko Tateishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Nakajima
One of the spin-offs of "From the North" tells the life story of "Natsu".
Stars: Min Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôji Matsuda, Chieko Baishô, Tomoko Tabata
In the middle of the 19th century, Yashiro bids farewell to his samurai friends Monzo and Samon and leaves his group to take up an important job in the government...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Shôji Ôki, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruo Suzuki
A samurai is overcome with guilt over the massacre of a small village. Now as a ronin, he finds out about his former group's plan to implement this plan in another village and decides to stop them...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Mikijirô Hira, Gô Katô, Kyôichi Satô, Torahiko Hamada
"Gnosuke", one of the clan's lieutenants, kills one of the elders of the clan to achieve reforms. He is chased by his old friends, each of whom hopes to get the revenge that the clan wants. But with the help of a master swordswoman named "Yamane", he gets a chance to save...
Stars: Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kei Satô, Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Sen Yano
A miner and his young son enter a town in search of work. But the town seems deserted. After some bad luck, he joins a group of lost souls of the town...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mikijirô Hira, Noriko Sengoku
On his deathbed, wealthy businessman Beck announces that all his wealth will be divided between his three illegitimate children, whose existence is hidden from his family and colleagues. A group of his colleagues and lawyers are trying to get his money and...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Asao Koike, Asao Uchida, Nobuo Kaneko
In the bustling black market of post-war Japan, Shuzo Hirono and his friends find themselves in a new war with the ambitious yakuza forces. After joining Chief Yamamori, he becomes enmity with his sworn brother's family and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Kanae Kobayashi, Shintarô Katsu, Akira Shimizu
Destitute Ronini joins a new group, but the group's ruthless leader tries to turn him into a cold-blooded killer...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Yoshio Inaba, Mikijirô Hira
A bankrupt man, just released from prison, reluctantly agrees to kill three men, but changes his mind when a group of gangsters target the same men. He then tries to understand why these men are victims.
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Yukio Horikita, Mizuho Suzuki, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa
When Suchiki no longer provides money for his old lover Kikuyu to take care of his three children, he and Suchiki abandon their children and disappear...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier joins a "kamikaze" mission against an American ship and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yukio Horikita, Yûji Hamada, Kanae Kobayashi
The story of this episode is about the fight of the blind swordsman against one of his most evil enemies: the blind boss of a yakuza...
