Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a rom...
Haruto is a freshman and a loner high school student until the arrival of the new teacher Aoyama. Ao...
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
S Finance's young female president, Fuyumi Asuka (Airi Kijima) ——— She likes smartphone games and ca...
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe...
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling...
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main...
Katlin is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain o...
Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on...
Misunderstood by his family, abandoned by the system, and desperate for respect, a dyslexic teenager...
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't ...
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jo...
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and...
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her b...