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- The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
- Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them, although secretly she loves him too.
- A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
- Young servant girl Hamako has just started working for her personal heroine, Madame Yuki, but her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately as she is introduced to a list of the Madame's personal problems.
- The hero Saburo (Okada Eiji) is obstructed by a series of events from meeting Keiko (Kuga Yoshiko), his fiancee.
- A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
- A poor mother leaves behind three children,whom she had with different fathers, at relatives and foster parents, and heads for the road.
- Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.
- Mikami, a Japanese soldier serving in China, is captured by the Chinese. Although he is able to escape, his troubles are far from over. He returns to his unit but is treated with contempt for the disgrace of having been captured. Mikami falls in love with Harumi, a prostitute. She tries to convince him to desert from the army, with fatal results.
- Three stories of young love, linked by each of the sets of lovers being counseled by the wise Professor Ishinaka. In the first story, a young man and his family search for a cache of hidden gasoline left over from the war. A pretty girl holds the key to whether the fuel can be found. In the second tale, two young lovers shame their fathers for going to see a burlesque show, leading to arguments that threaten to destroy the budding romance. The third story is about a girl given a prophecy that she will meet her future husband in the day couple of days, and the shy young farmer she encounters subsequently.
- The story from Victor Hugo's classic novel about a man convicted of a minor crime who spends his entire life pursued by a zealous, relentless lawman, reset in Meiji-period Japan.
- Stage sword-fighting and fencing instructor and choreographer, or 'tateshi', Ichikawa Danpei was a man so focused on his art and job at hand that he fails to notice how the times are passing him by and the moving tastes of the audiences, which are calling for more realism, are contributing to less demand for his skills. This is the story of changing times.
- In Japan, after the death of Mr. Masago, her wife Satomi Masago loses the family's company "Lily Cosmetic" to Mr. Mogy due to huge amount of debts relative to withdraws of money from the company made by her husband. Mogy blackmails Satomi's sister Hinako, asking her to marry him and he would not send Masago to jail, and Satomi wrongly understands that Hinako is dating her enemy Mogy. Satomi Masago founds the "Niagera Cosmetic" to compete with Lily and becomes a powerful executive. Hinako indeed likes Sonoike, former employee of Toyo Pictures and hired to work in Niagera, but Satomi plots the marriage of Hinako with her manager Tsuke Hinjatsu. Meanwhile, their young sister Chisuzu Satomi decides to live with the small time crook and pimp Ejima, from "Fashion & Films", being explored and abused by him. When Masago hires her lover Kojima to be the account of Niagera, she finds that Hinatsu is stealing the company with his mistress Yamashita. Hinatsu tries to kill Hinako and she loses her baby. Ejima publishes a book with the scandals of Masago, and her company bankrupts. In the end, the three sisters get rid off their mates and stay together.
- When a woman who has been the mistress of a politician since her teen years finds herself middle-aged and owning a nice house near the ocean, she cannot imagine how her future would be much different from her past. One day, however, she meets a boy who loves to read and studies literature by the water. The boy not only tells her about a novelist, but also makes introductions, which lead to the man and woman becoming a couple. The man lives with his student and a homeless girl he has been helping. The girl does not like the mistress, while the man ponders marrying the latter woman.
- Second part of the epic Japanese adaptation of Les Miserables, reset in late 19th-early 20th century times under the Meiji emperor.
- Dedicated doctor overworks herself into a serious heart condition, leaving the doctor she loves to find a cure.
- Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
- Kita is a reporter in peaceful town of Tojo, the base of an undetected black textile industry. Unyielding to the pressure of Onishi, the local boss, Kita reports the illegal trade of black textiles and the negligence of the police and the public prosecutor's office. The hell starts breaking loose.