La película cuenta la breve vida de Hachiro Kiyokawa, un ambicioso ronin de finales del siglo XIX japonés. Kiyokawa, un personaje misterioso y experto luchador, se mueve entre las dos facciones enfrentadas (el Shogun y el Emperador) para luchar por sus propios fines.
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Un empresario de la construcción contrata a un grupo de asesinos profesionales para que liquiden a una periodista que está investigando los negocios turbios que se trae entre manos.
Nurse
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
Japón, años 50. Como todos los días, los miembros de una familia se disponen a afrontar sus problemas, sueños y realidades. El padre, con los altibajos de su trabajo y las exigencias que impone la educación de los hijos. La madre, administrando los ingresos familiares y atendiendo a las múltiples complicaciones de la vida doméstica. Y los hijos obsesionados por tener televisión en casa, y uno de ellos enfrascado en sus estudios y angustiado por un defecto físico.
