Mitsue Suzuki

Takeshi: Childhood Days

Masahiro Shinoda

Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka

A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership.

集団左遷

Shunichi Kajima

Kyohei Shibata, Atsuo Nakamura

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

典子は、今

Zenzō Matsuyama

Noriko Tsuji, Misako Watanabe

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.

男はつらいよ 寅次郎サラダ記念日

Yoji Yamada

Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

街の灯

Azuma Morisaki

Masaaki Sakai, Hiromi Kurita

怪談せむし男

Hajime Sato

Kō Nishimura, Masumi Harukawa

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.

白蛇抄

Shunya Ito

Rumiko Koyanagi, Tetta Sugimoto

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and his son Masao.