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- A noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge.
- Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
- The women's prison film Scorpion's Revenge tells the tale of Nami, who, as the film begins, is sentenced to life in prison. The brutal activities inside the prison are masterminded both by a warden and brutal inmates. Nami must figure out how to survive in such a brutal setting, while all the while formulating a plan for revenge.
- Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who works for a construction company, loves her job and is progressing in her successful career, while her husband eagerly takes care of the house and the kids. He buys groceries, he cooks, he does the laundry - constantly. The couple's arguing intensifies until Minaka files for divorce. Their older daughter Mari isn't that upset by her parent's problems as she's more interested in the piano piece she's got to play with her mother at a concert organized by her music school; admittedly, she's also rather interested in her music teacher. But her younger brother Toru feels betrayed by his mother and can't manage to reconcile himself to his father's role as a housewife. A partial reconciliation occurs at Minako and Mari's concert, where their entrance on stage is met with loud applause.
- Yakumo has trained and searched for 4 years, following Pai's mysterious disappearance. However, when he finally finds her, not all is well as her memory seems to be gone.
- An Twilight Zone-ish anthology of three unrelated stories from Japan. First off, a diligent student studying for her college entrance exams is driven crazy (literally) by the noisy neighbors upstairs. Next, a handsome young executive at a small company receives a cryptic note from the eccentric office girl expressing her undying love, and if he doesn't meet her in the parking lot during lunch "she will die". The last story involves a sweet housewife who resorts to unusual measures to get rid of her nasty, bedridden mother-in-law.