In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario.

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are beheaded for harming them, it's a wonder people can survive at all. Nakamura Kinnosuke is a former samurai who has left the fold to live freely and must put his life on the line to save the girl he loves, and rescue her from the yakuza who duped her brother. When the truth comes out about his background, he is forced to take on the role of Edo Magistrate, a decision that brings him unimaginable heartache and danger!

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.

時は戦国、織田信長の軍勢に攻められた浅井長政の小谷城から三人の武士が落ちのびた。討ち死には御免と公言した猛者、疾風之介。忠義に厚い男、弥平次。疾風之介の思い人、加乃を連れ城から逃げ出した十郎太。それぞれに流転の人生を歩むこととなった三人は、やがて運命の糸に導かれるかのように再会を果たすが…。井上靖の原作を、時代劇の巨匠、稲垣浩監督が映画化。脚本に黒澤明も参加している。（form：NHKBS）

社会と家庭からの解放を求めてルンペンの群落に入った五百助というサラリーマンあがりの四十男が、初めて接した別な社会や人間にふれ、そこに真実の生き方を見出してゆく。

祖母とともに花屋を営む娘と、娘の亡兄の友人たちとの友情と恋を描いた青春ドラマ。｢喜びも悲しみも歳歳月｣の佐田啓二と｢女の園｣の久我美子が共演。

经过数年牢狱之灾，橘真一（高倉健 饰）回到故乡长崎。当年他所在的旭组以码头货物装卸为主业，组长旭统一（嵐寛寿郎 饰）严明而慈厚，特别禁止组员使用暴力。然而无赖云集的安井组入侵长崎码头，蓄意向旭组挑衅，才使得真一一怒之下斩伤对方老大安井（安部徹 饰）而入狱。最终，旭统一出面，终于平息纷乱，双方也迎来暂时的和平。但是，随着统一身体的恶化，安井组的气焰再次抬头，他们不仅打伤旭组的二代目，还进一步侵占他们的地盘。双方战争一触即发之际，真一回归，并受老大之命主持旭组事务……
本片根据伊藤一的原作《颜役》改编，系“网走系列”第三部。

A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. The country is in ruins, economy devastated, and the vulnerable masses deprived of work; let alone the basic amenities of life. A new order, led by voratius opportunists is in the make where the weak are easy prey to the hydraheaded mountebanks. Betrayed and exploited by their employer, a group of five trainee insurance brokers face the challenge of commuting suicide, or taking the path of felony. They choose the latter and decide to rub a money truck to ease the suffering and pain of their family members.

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

大正一二年、関東大震災が日本の経済に大打撃をあたえた直後。時の政府・資本家たちは治安維持法を制定してプロレタリア弾圧にのりだしていた。京都同志社大学で教壇にたって生物学者山本宣治は、その頃新しい考えかたによる性教育の必要を痛感して、教室で講義をしたり労組の集りで産児制限の講演をおこなったりしていた。だが、大学当局や政府筋は彼の行動を妨害した。大正一四年。ソヴェト労組代表が来日し、これを機会に政府は多くの自由主義的な学生や労勧者を検束した。宣治も同志社を追放され、労働党の運動に加わった。佐山村農民組合争議の惨状を目のあたりにして、彼は自分の生物学者としての考えかたを世に徹底させるためには、まず政治を改めねばならぬのを知った。妻千代や三人の息子は彼のよさ理解者であった。生家である料亭花屋敷を経営する父亀松、母多年も、考えかたこそ異れ、息子を信頼していた。佐山村争議で宣治は小作人さき・清母子や共産党員本田、彼に好意をよせる娘のぶなどを知った。やがて金融恐慌がやってきて、支配階級は侵略戦争を起した。昭和三年、普選に労働党から立候補した宣治は、苦しい選挙干渉と弾圧をしりぞけて代議士に当選した。三月一五日の全国的労農階級弾圧一斉検挙を迎えて、宣治は断固支配階級とたたかった。が、彼の身体は激しい日々の連続によって病魔におかされていた。政府は治安維持法をさらに改悪しようとした。宣治は一人、本会議場でこれの反対演説をおこなう決心をした。しかしその日を目前にひかえた夜、彼は神田の光来館で右翼の兇刃に倒れた。日本の暗い時代はますます重くるしく、ひろがっていこうとしていた。－－昭和四年のその日から年月が経て、侵略戦争は敗戦によって終止符をうった。はじめて赤旗に囲まれ、おこなわれた山宣の命日に、改めて人々は彼の姿を胸によるがえらせるのだった。...