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: 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: Isao Natsuyagi, Fumio Watanabe, Saburô Date, Kôji Fujiyama, Shinzô Hotta
After cooperating with the police, Matusa is again sentenced to prison and sent to one of the worst women's prisons in the country.
Stars: Jirô Okazaki, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Junko Ikeuchi, Yôko Mihara
The story of Kutsukake Tokijiro - yukyo ippiki begins when Tokijiro is forced to participate in the war in exchange for a night's stay and meals at the town chief's house. He hates killing people, but he has great skill in swordsmanship and has repeated this skill many times....
Stars: Tôru Abe, Takako Irie, Chieko Nakakita, Fumie Kitahara, Fumiko Okamura
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story. Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke ...
Stars: Jun Ôtomo, Yôichi Numata, Shigeru Amachi, Teruo Yoshida, Yôko Mihara
This is a semi-documentary crime drama. The murder of Kobe's customs chief prompts an official investigation into a prostitution ring called "The Yellow Line" that sells Japanese women.
Stars: Haruo Suzuki, Yoshi Katô, Toshirô Ishidô, Rokkô Toura, Eiko Oshima
At the end of World War II, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by Japanese villagers.
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Taiji Tonoyama, Mike Danning, Akira Ôizumi, Tatsuo Endô
During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Taiji Tonoyama, Gannosuke Ashiya, Kumeko Urabe, Kazuo Katô
A shipping company offers one of its workers free accommodation at the company's beach house. Once there, he finds that he too has to take care of a group of young...
Stars: Toshio Hosokawa, Teruo Yoshida, Junko Ikeuchi, Yôko Mihara, Hiroshi Shingûji
A man meets a woman who is suspected of murdering his fiancee. He is a pickpocket who is being watched by the organized crime department. Next, they decide to find out some facts.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Yôko Mihara, Yumi Takigawa, Kiyome Takemura, Yayoi Watanabe
In order to investigate her mothers strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Akira Ôizumi, Tatsuo Endô, Akira Shioji
The story of a group of girls who suddenly get involved in a tragic and criminal story.
Stars: Jun Ôtomo, Jun Tazaki, Masahiko Naruse, Shigeru Amachi, Teruo Yoshida
Two young crooks are recruited by a yakuza gang called Shigemori to steal a shipment of weapons from a rival gang.
