Na Era Tokugawa, o clã do Yagyu tem escondido três rolos contendo suas Crônicas secretas, que, se reveladas, poderiam causar revolução e desastre no clã.
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Otsuta está dirigindo a casa de gueixas Tsuta em Tóquio. Seu negócio está fortemente endividado. Sua filha Katsuyo não vê nenhum futuro no negócio de sua mãe porque está terminando os dias da gueixa. Mas Otsuta não desistirá. Este filme retrata a vida diurna da gueixa quando não está entretendo os clientes.
With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. One of the best of these was Arashi, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki of Rickshaw Man fame. Anticipating Hollywood's Table for Five by nearly a quarter of a century, the film concerns the efforts by a recently widowed high-school teacher to raise his four children alone. Chihu Ryu is terrific as the central character, while Izumi Yukimura is even better as Ryu's eldest daughter. For reasons unknown, Arashi is often omitted from "official" lists of Inagaki's films.