Sumao Ishihara

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Promising to make a delivery for a dying man, the blind swordsman Zatoichi comes across the usual crime gangs but also meets a blind monk who brings into question his use of violence.

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.