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Classic & contemporary Japanese Cinema... Films with eng. subs. in MY DVD Collection
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- DirectorKei KumaiStarsJûkichi UnoIzumi AshikawaHideaki NitaniThe appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsAyako WakaoYûnosuke ItôHisano YamaokaA greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsShintarô KatsuTatsuya NakadaiYukio MishimaA destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsAyako WakaoJunichiro YamashitaTamao NakamuraHaunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaKyôko KishidaEitarô OzawaA morally-suspect and self-serving retainer rashly baits her high-ranking employer, a regional governor, with a salacious story of a former acquaintance and catastrophe ensues.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsMinori TeradaNaoko ÔtaniYûnosuke ItôDuring World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoMariko OkadaKôji TakahashiAfter a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoAkio HasegawaGaku YamamotoA seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.
- DirectorKeigo KimuraStarsSô YamamuraAyako WakaoKeizô KawasakiA wealthy old man, Utsugi has recently suffered a stroke which has paralyzed his right hand and significantly reduced his quality of life. He currently operates a large household with a number of live-in staff, including a round the clock nurse, his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. The son, Joukichi, is a successful executive currently having an affair with a cabaret dancer, leaving his extremely beautiful wife, Sachiko, herself also formerly a dancer, at a loose end. Though approaching the end of his life and possibly physically incapable of acting on his desire, Utsugi is consumed with lust for Sachiko and thinks of little else but how to convince her to allow him even the smallest of intimacies. Sachiko, for her part, is not particularly interested in pursuing a romantic entanglement with her aged father-in-law but is perfectly aware of her power over him which she uses to fulfill her material desires. Meanwhile, Utsugi's rather pathetic behavior has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the household who view his desperation with a mix of pity, exasperation, and outrage.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMasako ArakiKanjûrô ArashiYasumi HaraAs a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsMichiyo YasudaShôichi OzawaMasakazu TamuraA 31-year-old man is manipulated by a much younger woman.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsJun NegamiSachiko HidariHitomi NozoeA young doctor running a small hospital has to choose between two women: a dedicated nurse or a wealthy girl who has been spoiled.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKei SatôDo-yun YuFumio WatanabeA Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaYoshi KatôSachiko HidariA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoJirô TamiyaYaeko MizutaniBased on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, but finds out that he has a wife.
- DirectorKôichi SaitôStarsKyôko EnamiAkira OdaMihoko NakagawaThe newcomers to a fishing village are a man who is escaping the gangsters after him and his girlfriend who is returning to her hometown. This may be as safe a place as any to lie low. Bored and fretting at first the couple find preoccupation in opposite ways. One settles in and becomes part of the community. The other picks up corruption and becomes a betrayer.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKyôko KagawaSusumu FujitaKeiko TsushimaHigh school girls, impressed to provide nursing care for the soldiers on Okinawa, find themselves on the front line during fierce onslaughts by American forces and are left to fend for themselves when the Japanese army dissolves.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsHiroshi KawaguchiHitomi NozoeHideo TakamatsuIn the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsMari AtsumiRyô TamuraYûsuke KawazuMore of a sex melodrama than an actual yakuza film, but it has yakuza elements.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsPîtâOsamu OgasawaraYoshimi JôThe trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoTakahiro TamuraNobuo ChibaOn the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTomisaburô WakayamaShima IwashitaHiroko IsayamaA mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoShinsuke AshidaYûsuke KawazuDuring the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsMichiyo YasudaKen OgataMayumi OgawaKen Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi's unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a "sex check" which all professional athletes must pass.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsRaizô IchikawaShiho FujimuraYûnosuke ItôA young ninja becomes embroiled in a plot to kill a tyrannical warlord. He journeys across feudal Japan, facing deceit, betrayal, and enemy ninja at every turn. Goemon must complete his mission, regain his honor, and survive.
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsGô KatôKomaki KuriharaYasushi NagataShinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as "I", for a young waitress named Shino.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsAyako WakaoMasao MishimaIsao KimuraSatoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsRentarô MikuniIneko ArimaMasayuki MoriWhen a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsAyako WakaoSô YamamuraJun FujimakiKoen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsRaizô IchikawaAyako WakaoHideko TakamineThe Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, "Tsusensan", some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.
- DirectorKôichi SaitôStarsKeiko KishiYoshie MinamiKen'ichi HagiwaraThis sad Japanese romantic melodrama tells the brief love story of a very alert young man and an extremely beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during a train ride.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiAyako WakaoGô KatôRecounts the events that the Mito Tengu Group undertook when they attempted to overthrow the Shogunate during the Bakumatsu Period.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoKyôko KishidaEiji FunakoshiA childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsEmiko TakahashiTanie KitabayashiGeorge OkunoyamaImmediately after the Second World War, sister Kiku and brother Isamu, whose mother was a prostitute and the father was a GI, live with their grandmother in the country. Because their colour, hair is different from Japanese, they'd have a hard time, being bullied or treated like unusual creatures. Unfortunately, racism and some other issues such as being different still exist in Japan but the way Kiku portrayed was quite refreshing as she's so strong and fighting against all those stupidity and cliché.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKinnosuke NakamuraEijirô TônoKyôko KishidaAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsKen UtsuiJunko KanôHideo TakamatsuAfter a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsYoshio HaradaRenji IshibashiRie NakagawaThe last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsRaizô IchikawaHizuru TakachihoMasayo BanriA warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.
- DirectorTomu UchidaStarsRentarô MikuniSachiko HidariKôji MitsuiThree thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTokuko WatanabeJiro KawarazakiThe story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind Shamisen teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsYûjirô IshiharaRuriko AsaokaHiroyuki NagatoA celebrity impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoHiroshi KawaguchiEitarô OzawaAyako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsKatsuko WakasugiJûzaburô AkechiTetsurô TanbaBiopic of female Japanese murderer Takahashi Oden.
- DirectorShun'ya ItôStarsMeiko KajiMikio NaritaReisen RiMatsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiIchirô NakataniHisashi IgawaFresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsMasayuki MoriTatsuya MihashiMie KitaharaHaruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami's disabled daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsShintarô KatsuNaoko ÔtaniMasakazu TamuraA yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however, soon has to contend with his sister falling for and dating her school teacher, but there is not much he can do about it if he is going to land in jail for stepping outside the bounds of the law.
- DirectorTomu UchidaStarsIsamu KosugiAkiko KazamiDonguriboyaThe setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and occurrences and actualities of the farmers of the period. The family has little money. The wife has died and the teenage daughter has to work. The son attends school. The grandfather lives with them as well.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsRentarô MikuniYûnosuke ItôShin'ichi ChibaGisuke is an illegal dentist by day and a thief by night. One night during an attempted robbery he witnesses a derailment. Later communists are found guilty of the incident, but he knows it was not them.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei SatôTwo women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
- DirectorHiromichi TakebeStarsTeruo YoshidaYôko MiharaShigeru AmachiTwo young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsYukio MishimaAyako WakaoEiji FunakoshiTakeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsTetsurô TanbaGô KatôKensaku MoritaDetectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKen OgataToshiyuki NishidaYûko TanakaThe famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsTsutomu TatsumiAyano ShiraishiAkemi YamaguchiA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
- DirectorNorifumi SuzukiStarsIsao NatsuyagiYukiko KuwaharaHiroko SakuramachiThe freelancing ninja Shiinusho Toma is assigned security at the Eno Castle. When he meets his match in the form of whip-wielding kunoichi femme-fatale Kageroi, a deadly romance blooms.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsKeiju KobayashiMichiyo AratamaEijirô TônoThis comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoKeizô KawasakiKenji SugawaraYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsYoshiko SakumaShôichi OzawaRentarô MikuniGonsuke has had to leave town to find employment and is working at a sake brewery far from his hometown. He travels back to his hometown to see and be with his mother when he hears that she has fallen ill. Despite the urgency he is sidetracked when he comes across a married woman called Oshin.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaYasunori IrikawaRuriko AsaokaA young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKazuo GotoSukio FukuokaKenichi FukudaA metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
- DirectorTomu UchidaStarsKinnosuke NakamuraIneko ArimaKinuyo TanakaA wealthy man falls in love with a prostitute.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaIsao KimuraYukio NinagawaIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsMayumi TanakaKeiko YokozawaKotoe HatsuiA young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsJirô TamiyaEiji FunakoshiYukiko Fuji
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineYôko TsukasaEitarô OzawaA child is killed in a hit and run. The mother plots her revenge by posing as a maid in the house of the murderer.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsRaizô IchikawaSachiko MuraseMayumi OgawaA young officer must choose between love and duty.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoHiroshi KawaguchiEiji FunakoshiIn the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTetsurô TanbaYôko TsukasaA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsChieko BaishôHisashi IgawaChishû RyûA poor family of miners from Kyushu uproot themselves and make the long journey to what they hope is a better life in Hokkaido. Their journey is beset with hardship and tragedy.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiShima IwashitaKôichi SatôDuring the Meiji era, a brutal prison warden terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido.
- DirectorYôichi HigashiStarsKaori MomoiEiji OkudaLeo MorimotoA wistful slice-of-life drama about a college student's attempts to manage her relations with two men.
- DirectorKôsaku YamashitaStarsKôji TsurutaTomisaburô WakayamaHiroshi NawaTokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKenzô KawarasakiAtsuko KakuAtsuo NakamuraUpon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.
- DirectorMansaku ItamiStarsChiezô KataokaShôsaku SugiyamaSôjin KamiyamaAkanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Although he comes from the samurai class, he now lives in poverty among the common people in times of rebellion, but the failed Kakita is not skilled in martial arts.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsKeiko KishiTatsuya NakadaiSô YamamuraA dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsShinjirô EbaraEijirô TônoYûko MochizukiThe heroes and heroines are all rice farmers, struggling to eke out an existence in an unfriendly world.
- DirectorKon IchikawaYasuzô MasumuraKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsAyako WakaoHiroshi KawaguchiSachiko HidariThree stories about modern women. The first works in a nightclub and plans to marry the boss. The second is used by a real estate agent as a lure for customers. The third is a retired geisha who waits to be reunited with her jailed lover.
- DirectorTomu UchidaStarsEiji NakanoIsamu KosugiTaisuke MatsumotoItami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex relationship is established between them.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMichiko TsukasaRyô TamuraEiji OkadaNear a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
- DirectorYasujirô ShimazuStarsKinuyo TanakaKôkichi TakadaTatsuo SaitôSasuke loves Okoto, a blind musician. When she befalls a terrible disfigurement Sasuke can't bare it which escalates into a shocking climax.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsFumio WatanabeAkiko KoyamaTetsuo AbeA young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsShinjirô EbaraHitomi NakaharaEiji OkadaJunai Monogatari is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsShinobu ÔtakeMieko HaradaChikako YuriThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900's in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsJanet HattaShin KishidaMinori TeradaAfter a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire.
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsYûjirô IshiharaRentarô MikuniYumeji TsukiokaIn this murder mystery musical, trouble comes in pairs on a cargo ship, when two brawlers come aboard and two female stowaways are subsequently discovered.
- DirectorTai KatôStarsKinnosuke NakamuraRentarô MikuniSatomi OkaA meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity that has deadly consequences.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsIsao BitôTadao FutamiKen'ichi HagiwaraFollows the fluctuating fortunes of three wanderers who travel through feudal Japan selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsTaiji TonoyamaNobuko OtowaKei SatôThe ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsMiyuki TakakuraTatsuo TerashimaYôichi NumataRich industrialist Imai wishes to marry his elder daughter Kyoko off to Aoki, who he sees as the ideal candidate to take over his business. Kyoko, however, prefers the rugged but poor Soichi to Aoki's goody-two-shoes.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsHiroshi KawaguchiHitomi NozoeAiko MimasuStory of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsHisaya MorishigeIsuzu YamadaKyôko KagawaA timid and aimless man's love for his cat is his only solace in a life dominated by his mother and the two women she chooses for him to marry.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsJirô TamiyaEijirô TônoTakahiro TamuraZaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds over who to nominate as his successor. The selection of the new professor reveals a rich and complex political world inside Naniwa University.
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsYûjirô IshiharaKeiji ItamiMie KitaharaIntersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion, and the ex-showgirl whose ballet training he funds, in a story balanced between the Ginza boxing ring and the highbrow world of the ballet studio.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsHiroshi KawaguchiKeizô KawasakiSeiji MiyaguchiNothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsAkiko TamuraYatsuko Tan'amiKen MitsudaStory 1 : "The Thirteenth Night". Seki turns up at her parents' house in the dead of night, where she breaks down and says she cannot continue to live with her husband, a rich man to whom the family is indebted. After a tearful and long discussion, they convince her to return. On the way home, the rickshaw driver turns out to be an old school friend, and they reminisce about the old days. .... Story 2 : "The Last Day Of The Year". Mine is a hard-working maid in the house of a miserly, slave-driving old woman who is burdened by a wastrel son, who pesters the old woman and her new husband for money to pay off gambling debts. Mine's uncle is her only surviving relative, and the man who raised her, who is very ill and needs money to repay a loanshark. Mine promises to borrow the money from her employer but, although the old woman initially agrees, she breaks that promise on the due date, New Year's Eve. Can honest Mine resist the temptation to steal ? ..... Story 3: "An Inlet of Muddy Water". The trials and tribulations of a group of young to middle-aged whores. All the women in this particular bawdy house look up to and admire the stunning O-Riki. But O-Riki is nevertheless troubled. Gen, a shabby coolie, hangs around and pesters her, despite having a long-suffering wife and a young son, who calls O-Riki "The Demon". One night, desperate for clients, several of the girls lunge at and literally drag some passers-by inside. One of these men is cultured and gentlemanly, and becomes O-Riki's regular client. She looks forward to his visits and hopes he will marry her. Meanwhile, Gen's wife alternates between solicitousness and harassment, and home life becomes tough.
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsMizuho SuzukiHiroko KinoMugihitoDr. Unan is asked to treat a young girl with A-bomb disease symptoms but her mother denies being in Nagasaki at the time of the bombing. Another young girl, Tokuko, asks Unan to write her a "Proof of Rape".
- DirectorTakashi NomuraStarsJô ShishidoJerry FujioChitose KobayashiA hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.