Sozaemon Hara
Este é um filme dividido em duas partes.
A primeira parte foi lançada originalmente no Japão antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor. O filme foi adaptado a partir da peça de Seika Mayama. A película desenvolve a crônicas do final da vida dos 47 Ronin, que tornaram-se (baseado historicamente) uma lenda na história japonesa.
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Teizo Miyabe
A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence, is reduced to apathy or victimhood.
Unno, a masterless samurai, has been supported financially since his father's death by his wife, who makes small paper balloons. He hopes that Mouri, his father's former master, will hire him after being given a letter from Unno's father. Unno's neighbor, Shinza, a hairdresser by trade, is under constant threat by gang members after running gambling dens on their territory.
Mori
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society.