After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.

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

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.

故事梗概为：在长野县冈谷的缫丝工厂里，有百余名来自歧阜县穷乡僻壤的“少女军团”，峰、华和菊是其中的代表。她们告别家乡的亲人，翻越野麦岭，踏上了异乡的求生之路。而等待她们的却是超负荷的劳动和资本家的压榨剥削。峰终因积劳成疾，不幸染上当时的不治之症——肺结核。资本家怕其他女 工也被传染，便通知峰的家属把她接走。峰的哥哥星夜兼程，赶到工厂，从破旧的草屋中找到奄奄一息的峰。他决心翻越群山密林，把病入膏肓的妹妹背回故乡。时值金秋时节，野麦岭上层林尽染，美不胜收。趴在哥哥的背上，峰的眼睛里闪出激动的光芒：“哥哥，我看到飞驒了。”说完，她永远地合上了双目。野麦岭上的冷箭竹默默地注视着这幕情景，欲哭无泪……
1903年。一百多名年轻姑娘越过野麦岭，来到山安足立厂做女工。三年以后，阿峰已经能够独立操作，和阿雪一同被称作是优秀女工，阿时和阿花等人则技术较差。由于受到不堪的辱骂阿时自杀死去。无家可归的阿雪在新年到来之时倍感孤独，遂对老板的儿子春夫以身相许。厂里的金库被盗，盗窃者实际上是春夫。老板怀疑是会计新吉干的。阿菊喜欢新吉，便向管理员黑木求情，黑木却趁机将她奸污。阿菊与新吉投江自杀。阿花和管理员代理英松相爱，英松很同情女工们。阿雪已怀上春夫的骨肉，春夫却和一个银行老板的女儿订婚。想回家将孩子生下来的阿雪在翻越野麦岭时流产。1908年美国发生经济危机，日本生丝出口受到影响，只好转向国内市场。为谋取利润，工厂强迫女工高强度生产，阿峰因过度劳累得了结核病，被踢出工厂。哥哥来背她回去，翻过高岗时阿峰死去。

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

1965 film by Hideo Gosha