Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
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: Yôko Tsukasa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara
A widow tries to marry her daughter, with the help of three of her late husband's friends...
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: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kichijirô Ueda, Nakajirô Tomita, Mikijirô Hira, Bokuzen Hidari
"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: 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: Fumio Watanabe, Hideo Kidokoro, Jun Hamamura, Kei Satô, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
A rough young man seduces a free-spirited young woman and ends up using his hacking skills to pick the pockets of middle-aged men...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Akiko Koyama
Uninvited guests disrupt the wedding ceremony of a radical student and accuse him, his wife and other guests of ignoring their political obligations...
