Akira Natsuki

勝負犬

Yoshio Inoue

Jirō Tamiya, Shigeru Amachi

A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.

タリラリラン高校生

Shigeo Tanaka

Tōru Minegishi, Kozaburo Onogawa

A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.

真昼の罠

Sôkichi Tomimoto

Jirō Tamiya, Junko Kano

野火

Kon Ichikawa

Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

白い巨塔

Satsuo Yamamoto

Jirō Tamiya, Eijirō Tōno

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

A Wife Confesses

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

Hoodlum Soldier

Yasuzō Masumura

Shintarō Katsu, Takahiro Tamura

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.

巨人と玩具

Yasuzō Masumura

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

女賭博師みだれ壷

Shigeo Tanaka

Kyōko Enami, Michiyo Ookusu

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The School of Spies

Yasuzō Masumura

Raizō Ichikawa, Mayumi Ogawa

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

楊貴妃

Kenji Mizoguchi

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

Black Test Car

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Junko Kano

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

おとうと

Kon Ichikawa

Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

私は二歳

Kon Ichikawa

Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

Kazuo Mori

Kenji Sugawara, Yoshirô Kitahara

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

女経

Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Hitomi Nozoe

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.