Screenplay: Teru Miyamoto

Direction Kôhei Oguri

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Mariko Kaga · Nobutaka Asahara · Makiko Shibata

Plot Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families' "businesses" are in fact dining and prostitution. When...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Makiko Esumi · Takashi Naitô · Tadanobu Asano · Gohki Kashiyama

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Hiroyuki Sanada · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Koichi Sato

Plot A love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Yûko Kotegawa · Junko Sakurada · Ryûji Takasaki · Masahiro Takashima

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yukiyo Toake · Gô Awazu · Takashi Ebata

Plot During the summer of 1962, a young Japanese teen--Tatsuo--is worried, like most of his peers, about his entrance examinations to high school. Moreover, he's developed a crush on his female...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Koichi Sato · Masahiko Nishimura · Michiko Kichise · Akira

Plot Four friends set off on a journey to what they believe is "Heaven on Earth", the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, to find new meanings to life.

Direction Shigemichi Sugita

Cast Yuki Saito · Naoto Ogata · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Tatsuya Nakadai

Plot Oracion is a racehorse purchased by a businessman in financial trouble. He believes the horse will win the upcoming Japan Derby and solve his monetary woes.