Cast: Yûdai Ishiyama

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Megumi Seki · Chizuru Ikewaki · Jun Murakami

Direction Masayuki Suo

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Tamiyo Kusakari · Naoto Takenaka · Eriko Watanabe

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Fubuki · Jun Hamamura · Yoshio Harada · Yûdai Ishiyama

Plot In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Ayumi Ishida · Setsuko Karasuma

Plot Constantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Etô · Haruko Mabuchi · Hajime Hana · Yoshio Harada

Plot Matsori no junbi based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Nakajima Takehiro, which takes its title from a picture by Paul Gauguin. This autobiographical film about a...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yûdai Ishiyama · Tamaki Katsura · Naomi Oka · Rei Okamoto

Plot A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Erina Miyai · Minako Mizushima · Mayuko Hino · Shinshô Nakamaru

Plot Kenzo, Azusa’s husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was still a virile, young man. Azusa does not...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Reiko Ohara · Tokiko Katô · Kunie Tanaka

Plot Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya Choji (snack bar) with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate.

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Jinpachi Nezu · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Jirô Chiba · Miyako Yamaguchi

Plot The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction. Blaming himself, he breaks with his family and wife,...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naomi Akimoto · Narimi Arimori · Tatsuya Fuji · Eiichi Furui

Plot A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.