Kappei Matsumoto

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.