To Love
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
Sandakan No. 8
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Willful Murder
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?
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Kei Kumai
Director
Ken Nishida
as
Nishiyama
Masumi Okada
as
professor
Atsuro Watabe
as
Tsutomu Yoshioka
Moeko Ezawa
as
Woman at the apartment
Takashi Ebata
as
Murata
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Sato
Chigusa Takayama
as
Tomi
Hideo Sunazuka
as
Yajima
Shinsuke Ashida
as
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Eiji Okuda
as
Honkakubo
Eijirô Tôno
as
Kokei
Toshirô Mifune
as
Rikyu Sen-no
Kappei Matsumoto
as
Doctor hatano
Yoshio Inaba
as
Horii
Yôko Asaji
as
Kawada
