Yugo Saso

アメリカでクリニックに勤める精神科医の真田。 ある日、家族とショッピングに出かけた際に一人の女性とエレベーターで遭遇する。 彼女の声が脳裏に響き渡り、真田は彼女とクリニックで問診している様を妄想する。 しかし彼女の話は、真田の想像を超える、壮絶なものだった。 幼い頃に家が火事になり両親を亡くし、学校ではイジメを受け、結婚相手からは浮気をされる。離婚してからは、アメリカで売春をしながら借金生活で過ごす毎日。 彼女の話を聞く内に、次々に登場する男と自分を重ね合わせ、彼女の話に引き込まれていく真田。彼女の話はさらにエスカレートして行き、思いもよらない方向へと向かっていく…。

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become symbolic of his desire to shed his old self. Though his lineage ends with himself, Jumpei starts anew as a father-figure to his sister's young son.

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamotsu has let go can the persimmon take its natural course.

A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation. Now alone and without work, just as it seems that things could not possibly get worse, parts of Mamoru's bicycle begin to disappear, one by one. In frustration, Mamoru leaves a note for the thief, begging him to just take the whole thing. The note left in response is signed God, leaving Mamoru only more confused. At last, when the only remaining piece of the bicycle is a lonely bell, Mamoru receives an envelope, containing addresses at which each piece of the bicycle might be retrieved.

日本赤軍との関係も深い若松孝二監督が、革命を叫ぶ若者のそばから1972年の連合赤軍・あさま山荘事件に迫る人間ドラマ。殺害される運命の遠山美枝子を坂井真紀、中心メンバーである永田洋子を並木愛枝、坂口弘をARATAが熱演。狂信的な連合赤軍メンバーの革命への夢が、悪夢へと至るプロセスが臨場感たっぷりに描かれる。壮絶なリンチシーンは目をそらしたくなるほど衝撃的だが、それ以上に彼らの思いが圧倒的な力強さで表現されている。

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.