Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.
A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.
A high school girl is invited to an old family's historic Hinamatsuri (Girls' Festival), but becomes entangled in an anomaly caused by the curse of the Hina dolls.
