Un escuadrón del ejercito japones es transportado por un fenómeno atmosférico hacia el pasado, a una época antigua donde los samurais dominaban Japón. Tendrán ahora que adaptarse y luchar por sus vidas en una tierra en la que la lucha entre clanes era salvaje y cruel.
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.
A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
Una noche, mientras estaba en el observatorio de la Torre Marina, el vendedor de cosméticos Ichiro Iki entabló una conversación con una joven desconocida, Akiko. Invita a Ichiro a un hotel donde hacen el amor, pero parte sin siquiera intercambiar nombres. Una semana más tarde, tienen un segundo encuentro casual en el observatorio y regresan a su hotel, donde Akiko le ruega a Ichiro que le dé a su hermana Kyoko el infierno absoluto. Akiko se resiente de su hermana por dar una conferencia sobre castidad, mientras que se dedica a la actividad promiscua ...