Akira Takada

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him to America. Unfortunately, a crazed tattoo artist is obsessed with Ayame's perfect skin as a potential canvas, so he kills Kisuke to keep Ayame in Japan. Later, Ayame is sold to a brothel in Yokohama. Kisuke's ghost possesses her, causing his image to appear tattoo-like on her skin whenever she has sex.

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.

Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit of groping female passengers in a sexual way. They never denounce him, and many seem to respond very favorably, moaning in apparent ecstasy. However, when his girlfriend sees him doing this, she denounces him to the police. The woman he was groping at the time refuses to press charges; indeed, she says that what was happening was nobody's business. Still, Jun's girlfriend leaves him. He goes to his father's grave to pay his respects, but somehow cannot find it. On his way back, he sees a number of men molesting a woman and does nothing to stop them. Eventually his girlfriend comes back to him, and his indulgence in train-groping tapers off.

The sad story of Toshiko Ono, an innocent woman who turned into a prostitute after being sexually assaulted by American soldiers.

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.

Cuatro estudiantes de provincias están en Tokyo para hacer los exámenes de selectividad. Desilusionados con la generación de sus padres, ven el futuro sin esperanza. Su respuesta consiste en ir por la calle cantando canciones obscenas. Una prostituta japonesa les explica que esas canciones no siempres son divertidas, a veces pueden ser muy tristes. Las fantasías de los cuatro protagonistas se centran en una chica rica que conocen de vista y a la que planean violar.

A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.

En el Japón en ruinas de la postguerra, Eisuke, un hombre desgraciado que va dando tumbos por la vida, conoce a Shino, una joven que trabaja como criada en una residencia y que vive sumida en la pobreza. Pero Shino deja de ser el objeto de sus deseos cuando Eisuke conoce a la mujer del señor Inagaki, el dueño de la residencia.

Nagisa Oshima utiliza el género "pink" para enmascarar una alegoría acerca del materalismo del Japón de posguerra (el título traducido significa "Indulgencia"). Katsuo Nakamura interpreta a un hombre que, tras haber matado al violador de la joven alumna de la que está enamorado, es chantajeado por un funcionario de Agricultura que ha malversado cien millones de yenes y le hace guardar una parte del botín de un robo mientras él cumple una sentencia de cárcel.