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- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsMichitarô MizushimaMisako WatanabeShôichi OzawaA prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsKeiko AmajiMakiko AoiIzumi Ashikawa
- DirectorYoshio InoueStarsKôjirô HongôHajime MitamuraKeiji Noguchi
- DirectorShoji MatsumuraStarsChiyonosuke AzumaEiko Maruyama
- DirectorTadashi SawashimaStarsKusuo AbeChiyonosuke AzumaHiromi HanazonoTaisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight against corruption in a castle.
- DirectorEisuke TakizawaStarsYûjirô IshiharaIzumi AshikawaSanae NakaharaIzumi Ashikawa plays heroine Keiko, an elegant, protected daughter who resides with her father in an old, western mansion without having any contact with society. Yujiro Ishihara plays a youth with good intentions who gradually emancipates her from a stubborn, old-fashioned family. Based on a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, who was an authority on romantic youth literature.
- DirectorBuichi SaitôStarsAkira KobayashiRuriko AsaokaJô Shishido
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsNobuko OtowaJun FujimakiKamatari FujiwaraSingle mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family - wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer - and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who's the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who's the girl's father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they're mean to her. Meanwhile the boy's mother gets friendly with one of the inn's clients and chucks her job for a trip or something more permanent with him. The young girl takes him shopping, and wants the boy to live with her and her mother, but mother and father refuse so the two kids go to a seaside where he sprains his ankle and they're late back even though the police get them and they're in trouble. The boy loses his beetle and tries to get another for the girl for a school project but when he does, she's moved house with her mother at the urging of her father. Clear? It's better in the film.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraYôko TsukasaMariko OkadaA widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
- DirectorHideo Sekigawa
- DirectorTsutomu TamuraStarsKayoko HonooMasao MishimaMasahiko TsugawaIn a small mining town, a young woman named Hide survives a suicide attempt while her lover dies. Blaming her for the death of his brother, Tatsuo and his gang of thugs try their best to drive the woman out of town. Eventually, Hide's days become a routine of delivering leftovers to a local pig farmer to make some money, being bullied by children on the streets and occasionally beaten by Tatsuo's men. Although it has become almost unbearable, she remains unimpressed by any of these ordeals. One day, a young man named Yasuo comes into town to work in the local quarry. His physical weakness and his stuttering make him an easy target for the workers as well as Tatsuo's men who tease and bully him. As a proof of his manhood, he is forced to sleep with Hide, but the situation creates a connection between the two of them, revealing a dark secret and the reason Yasuo had to escape from where he came from originally.
- DirectorTatsuo Ôsone
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsRaizô IchikawaAyako WakaoYôko Uraji
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsToshirô MifuneKôji TsurutaYôko TsukasaJapanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.
- DirectorHiromichi HorikawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiYôko TsukasaKoreya SendaTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsAkira TakaradaIzumi YukimuraTadao TakashimaMusical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests. Done very much in the style of a Fox musical of the same 1940s, complete with an elaborate "History of Jazz" finale.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsKô NishimuraNobuo KanekoMari ShirakiA bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsMachiko KyôHajime HanaEiji FunakoshiA pretty pickpocket is travelling on an express train from Osaka to her home village. She is an orphan, but wants to show off her wealth to the villagers who accused her father of being a spy. Detective Kita, who is on holiday, recognizes her and suggests to a pulp writer that he use her as a model for a story. While in a tunnel, she picks the wrong wallet from the man beside her, and subsequently loses her savings to an older woman pickpocket. At an inn, the writer replaces her money. The writer knows that the detective is falling in love with her, and the two follow her to her village. They find that the village is now part of a US air base and bombing range.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsYûjirô IshiharaIzumi AshikawaMisako WatanabeIzumi Ashikawa plays a profusely argumentative, strong-willed, intelligent woman who talks down on people. Yujiro Ishihara, as her partner, plays an up and coming photographer assigned to take photographs around Tokyo.