Naritoshi Hayashi

弥次喜多道中記

Torajirō Saitō

Raizō Ichikawa, Achako Hanabishi

女狐風呂

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiko Saga

二十九人の喧嘩状

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

あばれ鳶

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Shinobu Araki

芸道一代男

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kichisaburo Arashi, Narutoshi Hayashi

A Man of the Arts

赤胴鈴之助 一本足の魔人

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Shoji Umewaka, Tamao Nakamura

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

Tampopo

Juzo Itami

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

An Actor's Revenge

Kon Ichikawa

Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.

新・平家物語

Kenji Mizoguchi

Raizō Ichikawa, Yoshiko Kuga

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But because the high courtiers dislike career soldiers gaining power and influence, they ignore the will of ex-Emperor Toba and refuse to reward the captain. Reward recommender Lord Tokinobu is punished, and the captain sends his son Kiyomori to the Lord's residence, where he falls in love with Tokiko, the Lord's daughter. Meanwhile, Kiyomori finds out that he is possibly the ex-Emperor's son... Written by L.H. Wong

大阪物語

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

続花頭巾

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

赤胴鈴之助　月夜の怪人

Bin Kato

Shoji Umewaka, Narutoshi Hayashi

In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his friend, who has joined a gang of criminals.

廃市

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Satomi Kobayashi, Kisuke Yamashita

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

次郎長富士

Kazuo Mori

Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizō Ichikawa

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

鬼火駕籠

Mitsuo Hirotsu

Raizō Ichikawa, Shinobu Araki

鳴門秘帖

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Chikage Awashima, Toshio Chiba

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.