Matsudaira Sadanobu
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Mitsanari
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
Mizoguchi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")
Biografia do romancista, dramaturgo e ator japonês Yukio Mishima. O filme relaciona suas obras a acontecimentos de sua vida, como seu suicídio, que inclui o ritual de ser decapitado por um seguidor após cortar seu abdômen.
