Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

A Professional sniper, Ryo has executed so many missions with his partner, Narushima. But Ryo is cau...

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

> Story 1: "Missing" > Story 2: "Miss Ringo" (ミスりんご) > Story 3: "Tea Brewer" (お茶をつぐ) Raita is a d...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...