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三羽烏三代記 (1959)
Character: N/A
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
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充たされた生活 (1962)
Character: Karashima
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
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明日をつくる少女 (1958)
Character: Shoichi
A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young workers.
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春の夢 (1960)
Character: Yocchan
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
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予科練物語・紺碧の空遠く (1960)
Character: Michio Yamakawa
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
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明日の太陽 (1959)
Character: N/A
Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.
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二人で歩いた幾春秋 (1962)
Character: Toshiyuki Nonaka, Torae's son
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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やくざ刑罰史 私刑! (1969)
Character: N/A
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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惜春鳥 (1959)
Character: Akira Masugi
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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恋とのれん (1961)
Character: N/A
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
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歌え若人達 (1963)
Character: Kennedy Student
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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残酷異常虐待物語 元禄女系図 (1969)
Character: Hanji
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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