1973 film by Kinji Fukasaku

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.

昭和25年，山守组小头目三好万龟夫（菅原文太 饰）路袭敌对帮派头目，被判11年徒刑。服刑期间，随着日本经济的复苏和韩战的爆发，山守组不断壮大，而组织内部也分为山守、青木和难波三派。为壮大实力，三派先后拉拢三好，表面和谐之下暗流涌动。
三好假释的数日后，难波（中谷一郎 饰）被杀，幕后操纵者青木（若山富三郎 饰）转而求助广岛最大的组织海津组。以海津组为后盾，并联合难波组第二代头领野崎（室田日出男 饰），最终逼迫山守组组长（金子信雄 饰）退位。登上顶峰的青木成为众矢之的，险被暗杀开始图谋反击的三好、被迫退位阴谋复辟的山守以及誓为组长报仇的难波组第二代关胜（松方弘树 饰）等人全都伺机而动。一场搅和了阴谋与仁义的黑帮战争即将爆发……

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

1973 film by Kinji Fukasaku

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.