When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

『新・平家物語』于1972年1月2日至12月24日まで放送，是NHK大河剧第10作。全52回，平均視聴率21.4%。由吉川英治的大河小説『新・平家物語』改编，是描绘平家一族的兴衰悲欢的大叙事詩，也是大河剧十周年、豪華阵容的话题之作。

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

平安時代中期[1]を舞台に、ほぼ同時期に朝廷に対する叛乱を起こした平将門・藤原純友の生き様を描いた。主人公の将門と、その従兄弟である平貞盛から愛されるものの、両者の戦いに巻き込まれて惨殺されてしまう薄幸の姫君・貴子を吉永小百合が演じた。『真田風雲録』で知られる劇作家・福田善之が脚本を執筆、ここでの将門は、まず民衆が存在して、公などはずっと後からやって来たものだ、などと檄を飛ばすなど（こうした台詞は原作にはない）、反乱の歴史的位置付けを自ら意識した主人公である。
将門の勇敢さと真面目ぶり、貞盛の世渡り上手と気の弱さ、田原藤太の冷静沈着振り、純友の豪胆さと陰謀家ぶり等、人物の造形もわかりやすく、日活の清純派として名が通っていた吉永の演じる貴子が強姦殺害されるシーンも印象的だった。また、傀儡や海賊、遊女、農民等々庶民階層の登場人物が活躍する点も注目される。
2013年現在、平安時代中期というこれまでで最も古い時代を扱った大河ドラマである[2]。原作は海音寺潮五郎の小説『平将門』『海と風と虹と』。歴代大河ドラマの中で全映像の現存が確認されている最古の作品でもある。このうち、本編の放送回の映像は長年現存しないと考えられていたが、2000年代半ばになって、全放送回の映像が収録された当時の2インチVTRが現存していることが確認された（総集編の映像の存在は早くから確認されておりVHSやDVDで商品化されていた）。発見された映像は、9ヶ月にも及ぶデジタルリマスター処理により修復された上で、全話収録の完全版DVDが2007年7月に発売されている。なお、全52回放送の作品で完全版DVDが発売されているのは本作のみであり、これは全作品で一般公開されている尺数としては最も長い。
初回放送時の最高視聴率は30.1%、平均視聴率は24.0%。

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

1966 film by Mikio Naruse

永井荷風の没後一周年を記念して、豊田四郎監督が同名小説を映画化した文芸作。東京の郊外、隅田川の東にある遊廓で中学教師・順平は、お雪という娼婦と出会い恋に落ちる。だが、そんなふたりの関係が、順平の妻・光子の知るところとなり…。
A village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.

《男人之苦》系列的第三集。寅次郎在叔父、母和妹妹的慫恿下，又回到了柴又老家。兩老為了要他留下來，想出了一條絕世好橋。給他做媒，把女孩子一個又一個地帶來跟他相親，但結果連兩老也出乎意料之外 - 寅次郎自己做不成新郎哥，反而總是撮合了對方的一段姻緣，而且老是害得叔父、母破財埋單。寅次郎黯然繼續上路，但才不過一段路的過程，便又自作多情，墮入愛河‥‥

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

1964 film by Kihachi Okamoto

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

1966 film by Kihachi Okamoto

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

1967 film by Kihachi Okamoto