Keiji Furuyama

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.