An omnibus of 13 stories singing the praises of Japanese patriotism during wartime, set on the frontlines and back home.

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, less than a half hour of the footage has been recovered and restored.)

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hiroko's sister's husband Kono, who also sent Hiroko's fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during the war. Yamaoka has just been freed, but is seriously ill from his time in prison.

As all his peers leave the countryside moxia.cc to study in Tokyo, Naotaro stays behind.

“Oyuki, the [Virgin] is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” [“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach]. To this story Mizoguchi added some of his own elements. Maupassant’s original work, set during the Franco-Prussian War, is the story of a group of people who try to flee the battleground in a horsedrawn carriage. The bourgeois use the expression “lump of fat” to refer sarcastically to the prostitute who is riding along with them. When they are caught by the enemy, they offer to send her to the commander as a human sacrifice. This done, when they leave the battlefield the next day, all they do is censure her and call her vulgar.
The scene shifts to the Seinan war in Kyushu. At one stage, government forces are seen trying to control the carriage. As a new element to the original story the film shows these forces being defeated in battle. The commander flees and hides in the home of the female protagonist, a saké server.
The original work is a critique of bourgeois selfishness. [Oyuki] is shown as a humble woman, protected by a young man out to make a success of himself in the world, a Mizoguchi theme so visible in other films.”
--Tadao Sato, Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema

日本封建时代的铸剑过程，武士与主人间报恩、报仇的恩怨情节为主，真正的中心还是环绕着一个女人。片子有种说不出的温柔与细致。

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them to avenge their father's death. The perpetrators of their father's demise see the siblings practicing, and so enlist the help of another revered swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, giving the latter an excuse to battle Miyamoto.

1946 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights.

以旧家庭的悲剧的没落为主题,描写围绕美丽妖艳的雪夫人的三个男人之间的纠葛,, 是舟桥圣一的同名小说的电影化

豪雨で汽車の止まったホームで待つ男、そして待合室で待つ女、彼らは神田明神を見つめながら昔のことを思い出す。その男、秦宗吉は田舎から出てきたが絶望し、自殺しようとしていたところをその女、お千に助けられたのだった。お千は情夫に悪事の片棒を担がされながら、宗吉を生きがいとして生きるようになっていき、宗吉も苦しい生活を送りながら、医者になるという夢を果たそうと努力するが…
泉鏡花の『売色鴨南蛮』を溝口が映画化。溝口最後のサイレンと作品で、音楽と活弁士・松井翠声の解説とが録音されたサウンド版として製作された。また、溝口の第一映画移籍第一作に当たり、この作品以降山田五十鈴とのコンビでヒット作を連発した。

Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.

出生于一个普通家庭的绫子（山田五十铃 饰）现供职于某制药公司，她喜欢同事西村，然而对方却是一个极不爽利难有担当的男人。糟糕的是绫子的父亲也好不到哪去，他挪用公款事发，面临牢狱之灾。为了搭救父亲，绫子只得点头同意给公司的老板当情人，以换取赔偿公款的金钱。在此期间，她还要想方设法供正在上大学的哥哥完成学业。本就疲于奔命，最终也落得和老板分道扬镳。在金钱面前，绫子可谓不遗余力，想尽了各种办法。只是如此这般牺牲自我的付出，并未换来父亲、哥哥、西村的尊重，在他们眼里，领子究竟是怎样一个存在呢？