Yousuke Kondou
Рождение : 1933-08-08, Sakhalin, Russian SFSR, USSR
Watanabe Kazuma's younger brother is brutally murdered by Kawai Matagoro. However, Kazuma's vendetta is denied since the Japanese law in the 17th Century only allowed a samurai to avenge his father or older brother, but not a younger brother. This incident makes his family member Araki Mataemon face his best friend in order to clear path for Kazuma. The tension mounts as they must carry out the vengeance before the murderer Kawai Matagoro reaches the safety of a direct retainer of the Shogun.
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after another. Sakai Utanokamike, the Rozyu, is turned out to be involved in this scheme, and the aim is to destroy the Date family. Tsunamune's brother Munekatsu Date who is willing to take over the family doesn't know the real purpose of Utanokami and helps him. Munesuku Harada gets to know the whole picture of the incident and takes action alone for the sake of protecting the Date family, leaving his own family. His lonely fight continues for 10 years and he got in danger in Utanokamike's house, and...
The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A fight over the treasure that the map shows happens among the Rozyu, a Ronin, a thief, and the Hyodo family. Is the treasure there? Who will get it? Masakazu Tamura plays the role of a ronin from Edo, Hayato Arakida, from the Mumyo Tenshin school dojo and a swordmaster working for Lord Awa. The film is based on the original work of Kyotaro Nishimura. A period show with a fierce fight on a raft going down a river and romance.
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...
Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife.
Professor Akita
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Vitalis (voice)
Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.
King Hilderbrand (voice)
В недобрый час вдовый король встречает во время охоты в лесу старую колдунью, которая хитростью женит его на своей дочери, тоже колдунье. Шестерых сыновей короля, братьев-принцев, мачеха превращает в лебедей. Их сестра Элиза видела, что произошло и, спасаясь, убежала в лес. Чтобы разрушить колдовство злой королевы-колдуньи, она молча плетет братьям рубашки-кольчуги из крапивы - по рубашке в год. Чтобы спасти братьев, Элиза не смеет заговорить ни когда встречает полюбившего ее прекрасного молодого короля, ни даже когда коварная ведьма обвиняет ее в колдовстве, и ей грозит костер.
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
Masaji
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
Honda
The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...
Затойчи приходит на женский аукцион, чтобы спасти самурайскую невесту. Он задает жалким преступником жару. Попоясничав при игре в кости, в сауне происходит сражение голых татуированных якудз…
Мужчина влюбляется и находит то, чего не имеет в своей семье. Его благополучные во всем отношения натыкаются на отсутствие поддержки со стороны 6-летнего сына его возлюбленной. Что это, осторожность по отношению к незнакомому человеку, или угроза, которая может всё разрушить?
Sato Koichi
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
Yukio Aoshima and several of his friends go to the seashore for a weekend, and Yukio films them as they enjoy the sand, the surf, and each other.
Kôichi Abe
Кирико обращается к известному адвокату с просьбой защищать её брата, обвиняемого в убийстве. Адвокат отказывает. Спустя время пути Кирико и адвоката вновь пересекаются, но в этот раз помощь нужна адвокату…
(segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi") (uncredited)
Название фильма переводится как «устный рассказ о сверхъестественном». Картина основана на историях из собрания японских народных сказок Лафкадио Хирна и состоит из четырёх не связанных друг с другом историй.
Adaptation of novel.