Takagi
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
Ken Mori
A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...
Akama
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Um grupo de soldados japoneses comuns é preso por crimes contra a humanidade, eles próprios vítimas de uma nação que se recusa a carregar o seu fardo como um todo.
Da coleção "Criterion Collection": "Entre os primeiros filmes japoneses a lidar diretamente com as cicatrizes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, por ser um filme com conteúdo inflamatório, o filme foi engavetado pelo estúdio por três anos antes de ser lançado."
