Jūkichi Uno

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Dir. Kaneto Shindō · With Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · With Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirō Sugai