Hisako Ôkata
Nacimiento : 1939-03-09, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Ineko Maki
En Japón, en un futuro cercano, el envejecimiento de la población se acelera. El gobierno estima que, a partir de cierta edad, los mayores se convierten en una carga inútil para la sociedad e implementa el “Plan 75”. Dicho programa propone a los ancianos un acompañamiento logístico y financiero para poner fin a su vida. Una candidata al Plan 75, Michi, un reclutador del gobierno, Hiromu, y una joven auxiliar de enfermería filipina, María, se ven enfrentados a un pacto mortífero.
Sachiko Akaike
Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"
In a city where unmarried people are drafted to solve the declining birthrate, 44-year-old unmarried Yoshiko tries to find a marriage partner in order to escape from recruitment.
Shigeyo Namiki
Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that one is pregnant one day. The woman decides to give birth out of wedlock. It is a major decision, which is the harbinger of not just a change in their lives, but also their relationship.
Ojigi
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.
Toko Oishi
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal the kidnapper to be Ichiko’s own nephew.
Shime Matsumoto
Akie Takanashi
Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of a solitary woman's genuine despair.
(segment "Winter Has Come")
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.
Shizu Ozawa
Izumi es la esposa de un exitoso escritor. Su día a día pasa por una anodina rutina y por una relación sin pasión. Un día, Izumi comienza a trabajar en un supermercado vendiendo salchichas; otro, termina involucrándose en una película pornográfica; y finalmente, comienza a ejercer de prostituta. Mientras ella se sumerge en una espiral de sexualidad irrefrenable, un cadáver aparece en el barrio de los hoteles del amor. Nueva muestra de amor, crimen, sexo y sangre de Sion Sono, y con la que según la productora pondría punto final a la "Saga del odio", que formarían Love Exposure, Cold fish y esta Guilty of Romance.
(segment "Mushroom Hunting")
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2004 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Koroshiya desu no yo (It's a Hitman, You Know) - starring Mizuki Alisa. 2. Jibun-counsellor (Self-counsellor) - starring Inohara Yoshihiko. 3. Be Silent - starring Watabe Atsuro. 4. Sasoimizu (Pump-priming) - starring Harada Taizo. 5. Saigo no Hitotoki (The Last Moment) - starring Nagasaku Hiromi.
Yoshi Kitagawa
Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Based on the novel of the same name by Azusa Katsume.
Taki'e
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.
An aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a “Koguryo Beauty” who shows him how to trace his heritage
Nun F
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
Horus (voice)
La historia narra como el valiente y joven Hols cumple con la última voluntad de su difunto padre, buscar su pueblo, que años atrás fue arrasado por el demonio Grunwald. Sólo la Espada del Sol podrá acabar con el demonio y para ello necesitará la ayuda de los hombres, comprendiendo así Hols la importancia de estar unidos... Primera película dirigida por Isao Takahata, contó con Hayao Miyazaki como máximo responsable de la animación y Toei Douga la estrenó en cines japoneses en 1968, llegando a EEUU durante los años 80 bajo el nombre de "El Pequeño Príncipe Nórdico Valiente" (Little Norse Prince).
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.