Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes of escaping the slums.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite and superficially perfect manners.

以茶道入魂寫大和「物哀」，川端的戰後代表作，在「女優映畫」巨匠吉村公三郎導演視野、新藤兼人細膩劇本及宮川一夫瑰麗攝影的靈光下，美得令人神魂顛倒。當代女優的魅力，穿透黑白光影傾瀉而來：木暮實千代呷着黑碗綠茶，「像春天發綠意似的」魅惑，投射太田夫人對情夫的痴纏，令其兒子沉溺 得無法自拔；一隻依附着愛慾幽靈的瓷茶杯，牽動一對父子與一對母女間的纏綿悱惻，是美還是妖艷？將文字裏鏡花水月的暗示美，幻化凄迷光影意象，雕琢成文學及電影上完美藝術經典。（電影節發燒友）

昭和16年、文化雑誌の経営者ジャック・ノーランは、日本に暗躍する諜報組織の一員だった。武田憲兵少佐（佐分利信）は、彼をマークしているものの、決定的な証拠をつかめずにいた。そんなある日、忽然と現れたのが、熱狂的抗日派のスパイ王有方（原保美）である。彼は日支提携の布石となって活躍した津村家に寄宿し、ノーランの手先として動いていた…。

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica (Rika Aoki) could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

終戦の前夜。青年将校沼崎敬太は誤まれる国家観により平和主義者の重臣戸田光政を暗殺し、その娘節子の短剣によって腕に傷をうけた－－。一九四八年、歳月は流れ、銀座裏明星ホールの一隅に一人の青年が魂を失っていた。彼は敬太であった。彼を手先に使っている佐川は表面新聞を発行し、裏面は悪徳の限りをつくしていた。彼の経営する明星ホールには父と家を失い転落した戸田節子がいた。節子の義兄平林はかつて鬼検事として自由主義者をろう獄にたたき込み、今は人の目をしのんで佐川の新聞社の一隅に生きていた。節子は運命の皮肉によりいつか敬太に心ひかれ敬太もまた節子を愛した。だが敬太はかつて犯した罪の、あのときの娘の面影を今、その節子に見出してがく然とした。だが今は愛する彼女に打明ける勇気がなかった。佐川は節子をわがものにするため敬太を殺そうとした。暗夜、敬太は佐川の手下に傷つけられ節子に救われた。敬太を介抱した節子は、彼の腕の傷痕に父の仇の人を見出した。しかし彼女は今敬太を愛しているのだ。そのころ佐川の某会社争議破りと民衆殺傷事件を察知した都下有力新聞記者高倉は佐川の新聞社にのりこみそこで平林の姿を見た。高倉はかつて平林のため冷こくなごう問にあい片輪になっていた。彼は逆上したが理性をもって心をおさえた。これを知った佐川は高倉と平林をけしかけ決闘させることにした。高倉がたおれれば犯罪が暴露せず、平林がたおれることにより介添に敬太をつけることから節子は敬太を憎み離れるだろう。だが決闘の夜、平林も高倉も、そして敬太もすべてが佐川のたくらみであると知り、敬太は今こそ人民の敵佐川を憎みそして殺した。彼は自首を決し、節子のアパートへ別れにいった。そして節子の父を殺したことも告白するのだ。節子の眼ざしは静かだった。「知っていました……」軍閥が二人を憎しみ合う位置においたので、今愛し合う二人はそれをのり越えようとしている。二人はひしと抱きあった。この日こそ敬太の生がいに輝ける日であった。翌朝節子の明るい眼ざしに送られて、敬太の姿は警視庁のとびらの中に入っていった。

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.