Cast: Kenichi Katô

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kazunari Ninomiya · Haru Kuroki · Tadanobu Asano

Plot Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when...

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Shinobu Otake · Takeshi Kaga · Mariko Kaga

Plot A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yukiyo Toake · Mayuko Wakamori · Tomoe Hiiro

Plot A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jun Fubuki · Kei Sato · Mikio Narita

Plot Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Direction Yoshitaka Asama

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Kenichi Katô · Eiko Akiyama · Kei Suma

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Shôgo Shimada · Ken Takakura · Hideji Ôtaki · Kinya Kitaoji

Plot Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army tackled Mount Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.