A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.

这是一个市井的故事，发生在任何发展中国家高楼大厦的背面；这是普罗大众真实的社会，在主流媒体有意无意的忽略中。
影片片名出自电影主人公的口头禅（Dodes'ka-den），一种模仿电车行走的声音。在人的世界里总要发出一点声音指证你的存在。
在隆隆的电车声中，我们看见你的笑容，智障的小六，安详而自得。
来来往往的电车一天又一天，时序的轮回中，普罗大众的每一天都是相同的，无奈而无助，在个体无法抗衡运命的那刻。小六的智障何尝不是一种幸福。
对于市井中的芸芸众生，活着，有时只是一口气，他们的每一天都为着生计和饭钵忙碌，沉重而又无望。在这点上而言，智障的小六何尝不是一种幸福。
存在的世界，思考的人因为思考招致的烦忧还少吗？
小六的家母吟诵着经文，一旁的小六合十拜佛，祈祷佛佑其母，此一细节说明了小六的善良和乐观，活在无奈中的底层人民，学习些阿Q精神或者更能面对凄苦的生存状态吧！智障的人和清醒的人，到底哪一种人更幸福？！
两个人的祈佛声越来越响，在无法改观境遇的存在中，留下一个希望总比没有希望好。
智障的小六以为自己是个电车司机，每一天准时在贫民窟的垃圾场边风雨无阻开着子虚乌有的电车，这就是母子每天的生活，噙泪的母亲总是呆呆望着沉浸在另一个世界中的孩子，母亲的辛酸只有母亲一人独存。
这样一个题材，黑泽明却用小六家那堵色彩艳丽画满电车的墙，表述着心念中对美好世界的希望，那些天真的蜡笔画是生命在灰暗中对亮色的一种期待，一种积极的人生态度。整个画满淫浸着导演的热忱和理想…
车，是向前的载体；车，是动力的投射；一个未来的念想。

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.