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

大富豪藤本は壮年の頃より女に対しての横暴を持って花柳界を荒してきたが、遇々彼が目を付けた若き芸妓、折枝は図らずも彼が昔、弊履の如く捨てた女の忘れ形見である事を知り、鉄槌を受けたように悔恨の情に襲われた。若き頃の過ちを償うため、折枝の幸福を蔭ながら護ろうとした藤本だが、運命は皮肉なもので、我が息子良樹が、腹違いの妹とも知らず折枝に恋してしまったのである。さらに、良樹の竹馬の友佐久間も折枝に心惹かれており、折枝を中心に恋心が複雑に渦巻くのであった。折枝も又、藤本の魔手の次は二人の間の板ばさみに悩む。更に、良樹の妹で社交界の花形早百合子が、その見識とは裏腹に佐久間を恋するという、真に大都会東京の片隅は、めまぐるしく動き続け、因縁の糸に操られるがごとく皮肉な微笑を残して今日もすぎてゆく。

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。

一切のエンターテイメント性を排したストイックかつ格調高い宮本武蔵。戦時下末期の制作で、溝口ならではの超辛口な演出です。

喜多川歌麿（坂東簑助 饰）因绘画某千金小姐雪江（大原英子 饰）惹上麻烦，雪江的未婚夫，同时也是幕府御用画师出身的小出势之助（坂东好太郎 饰）吵上门来，非要与之用画技一决雌雄。一番比试过后，势之助甘拜下风，随后抛弃武士身份并与雪江分手，拜入喜多川门下学习。
歌麿生性开朗，经他画出的美女图成为全城抢购的热销产品，而他的模特们也会自此迷恋上他。当然，爱人多了同样也会带来烦恼……
[背景]江户本土出生的喜多川歌麿饰江户幕府时期最著名的浮世绘画家，他是“大首绘”的创始人，也就是有脸部特写的半身胸像，代表作为 “江户宽政年间三美人”，1804年因绘制《太阁洛东五妻游观》得罪幕府，受手铐刑（该事件在片中提到）。

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。

十多年前，井上弧堂收留了素不相识的少年小野，并教育培养他长大。如今，小野在东京生活得很好。贫困的井上一家在小野的帮助下离开京都搬到了东京，他们希望能让家里的独生女小夜子嫁给小野。然而小野又结识了名门千金藤尾，藤尾的母亲张罗着让女儿和小野结婚。小野在两个女子之间迷失了方向，与此同时，他的心中还涌动着更为复杂的矛盾和挣扎：恩师的情义不可辜负，而出人头地的欲望也难以抵御。小野究竟会选择何者。

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？

在京都岛原游廓，经营着一家水准极其之高的艺伎场所井筒屋。女将初子曾是风光无限的太夫，但是在丈夫去世后，她洗尽红妆，以一己之力支撑着井筒屋的经营，并供养女儿雪子的学业。雪子而今正在东京的音乐学校主修钢琴，她和男友准备订婚，但是因为家庭出身的缘由而遭到对方家庭的拒绝。伤心欲绝的雪子将一切归咎与母亲，之后愤而自杀。初子忙不迭地赶往东京将女儿接了回来，并请求青年医生的场为雪子看病。在这一过程中，雪子的心意渐渐转了过来，和母亲以及其他艺伎的关系也得到缓和，而她似乎也对的场有了好感。
生活在谎言欺骗中的女性，似乎只有受尽创伤后才能看清一切……