An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a young man who committed suicide.
A su regreso del planeta Marte, una astronave es portadora de un virus que al contacto con nuestro planeta engendra al monstruo Gilala, un ser gigante que pesa 15.000 toneladas y pretende destrozar todas las ciudades que se le pongan en su camino.
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Segawa, maestro en una pequeña aldea, decide romper con su cobardía tras descubrirse su origen paria.