Cast: Masaaki Sakai

Direction Kiyoshi Sasabe

Cast Rena Tanaka · Kumiko Aso · Noriko Nakagoshi · Hisashi Yoshizawa

Plot Atomic bomb survivor Hirano Minami (Aso Kumiko) knows all too well life's bitter brevity. She lost her father and sisters to the bomb and radiation poisoning, and has not seen...

Direction Masahiko Tsugawa

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yoshino Kimura · Hôka Kinoshita · Akira Tanaka

Plot A dying old man named Shomantei has one last request. It is a different one. He would like to see the vagina of a young and pretty virgin. The family...

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tatsuya Fuji · Yoshio Harada · Takeo Chii

Plot The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Koji Mitsui · Chieko Baisho · Hajime Hana · Tonpei Hidari

Direction Yusuke Kato · Gaku Narita · Sawada Kensaku

Cast Shingo Katori · Teruyoshi Uchimura · Atsushi Ito · Eri Fukatsu

Plot 11 episodes. Modern adaptation of the famous Chinese story "Journey to the West". It follows the monk Sanzo Hoshi and her three disciples--the monkey king Son Goku; the half-man, half-pig...

Direction Ryuichi Takamori

Cast Kazuo Funaki · Taeko Hamada · Chiyoko Honma · Roy H. James

Plot A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.

Direction Ryuichi Takamori

Cast Ushio Akashi · Shigeko Arai · Sonny Chiba · Kazuo Funaki

Plot An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students...