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Director: Tom Stoppard Writers: William Shakespeare (I), Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard Gary Oldman Rosencrantz Tim Roth Guildenstern Richard Dreyfuss The Player

Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlet's malaise as requested by the new king?

Director: Masahiro Shinoda Writers: Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Masahiro Shinoda, Tôru Takemitsu, ... Shima Iwashita Koharu and Osan Kichiemon Nakamura Jihei Kamatari Fujiwara Owner of the Yamatoya

In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwashita), but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu. Jihei's wife Osan tries to keep her husband with his two children and asks Koharu to leave him.

Director: George Sidney (II) Writers: Beverley Cross, Beverley Cross, Dorothy Kingsley, ... Tommy Steele Arthur Kipps Julia Foster (I) Ann Cyril Ritchard Harry Chitterlow

Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of money.

Director: Vincent J. Donehue Writers: Dore Schary, Howard Teichmann, Nathanael West Montgomery Clift Adam White Robert Ryan (I) William Shrike Myrna Loy Florence Shrike

Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike (Robert Ryan), takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence (Myrna Loy) for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest.