After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

村松友視の「時代屋の女房」は１９８２年上期の第８７回直木賞を受賞しています。前年には、つかこうへいの「蒲田行進曲」が受賞しており、なにか８０年代の時代を感じる本です。ストーリー自体は東京都品川区の大井町駅に近い大井三つ又交差点にある古道具屋が舞台になっています。映画は｢時代屋｣という骨董店を営む渡瀬恒彦が演じる「安さん」と、夏目雅子が演じる｢時代屋の女房、真弓」が、俗に言う「涙と笑いのストーリー」を演じており、それに加えて津川雅彦が女たらしの喫茶店マスターをやっていて、なかなかいい演技をしています（この三人が絡み合っていて、なかなかいいですね！）。映像も少し都心から離れた、寂れつつある大井町の町並みをよく表現していると思います。

The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.