Cast: Takayuki Katô

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Shiro Mifune · Fumi Dan

Synopsis Ihei Misawa and his wife Tayo, stranded by rains at a country inn, bring a great deal of happiness to the other residents of the inn by means of Ihei's generosity and good spirit. Ihei is a masterless samurai and...

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Fusako Urabe · Nene Ohtsuka · Takayuki Katô · Kikujiro Honda

Synopsis Yuko is back in Japan after being freed as a hostage in the Middle East. But six months after, her return is proving to be much more of anordeal. It seems the whole of Japanese society is against her after...

Direction Kei Nakata

Cast Eri Ishikawa · Takayuki Katô · Joe Yamanaka · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis A girl called Zero stands in a crowded street, her occupation an assassin. As she completes her tasks one after another, Zero has been feeling uneasy lately. As her code name suggests, she has nothing to prove her existence. She...

Direction Yoshito Fukumoto · Hiroshi Nishitani · Matsuda Hidetomo

Cast Toshirô Yanagiba · Tomoya Nagase · Kotomi Kyono · Akiko Yada

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Akira Terao · Naomi Hosokawa · Nagiko Tono

Synopsis A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.