On a premise of a prison, a guard dressed in protective clothing, who is in charge of cleaning of the sandy beach known as the special government-owned land, has been cleaning the beach as usual today. When he was finished with the cleaning, a chief guard dressed in the same protective clothing comes to the beach to take the three condemned criminals.The beach of the sea has the power to take the lives of a person who has touched the sands, and the death penalty had been executed by using such supernatural power in this prison...
妻子に逃げられ生きる目的を失った水木譲司（奥田瑛ニ）は、ダンボールの紙片に描いた絵を売るホームレスの画家。その才能に目をつけた画商の今日子（黒沢あすか）は画壇にデビューさせようとするが、彼は断る。そんな中、酒に溺れる譲司の肉体は病魔に蝕まれていた。
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
A couple years have passed, Matsuzaki is divorced and has a daughter and is still up to his old compulsive gambling, boozing and womanizing even as he stares middle age in the face. At his daughter's school he meets a teacher who's similarily obsessed with horserace betting and who's also frigid - something he does his best to therapize. He also reconnects with his ex-wife, who just so happens to be the literary agent and love interest of another writer of the gambling genre. An epic gambling battle between the two ensues.
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public transport. But he does have two mistresses: Ayumi, who runs a nightclub, and Yoshie, a brothel-keeper. When Tanaka's boss ends up in hospital, second man Kurauchi exerts increasing pressure on Tanaka. Tanaka deliberately has himself wounded by a fighter to dodge several of Kurauchi's demands.
