Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
粟津環は堂本組若頭補佐で粟津組組長の妻である。気丈な彼女は、服役中の夫・等に変わり組を守っていたが、堂本組総長が急死した。関西を拠点に全国的に勢力を持つ堂本組は、傘下組員二万人の暴力団で、粟津組はその直系である。堂本組の跡目相続人は、故人の遺言によって若頭の柿沼に決定した。これを不満とする舎弟頭の蔵川は、同補佐の小磯らを引き連れて朋竜会を結成したが環はあくまで堂本に忠誠を尽し、小磯の誘いを拒否する。
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
時代劇のメッカ、京都撮影所。人情に篤いが激情家なのが玉にキズの大スター銀ちゃんと、その銀ちゃんに憧れる大部屋俳優のヤス。ある日、ヤスのアパートに銀ちゃんが女優の小夏を連れてやって来た。銀ちゃんの子を身ごもった小夏をスキャンダルになるからとヤスに押し付けに来たのだった。
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.
昭和15年、船大工の小田切武市は、ひとり息子の正人が海軍兵学校に合格したと聞き、大喜び。一方、考古学者の本郷は、長男の英一が自分の反対を押し切って海軍少尉となったのに引きかえ、次男の真二が自分と同じ学問の道に進むと聞いて、ほっと胸をなでおろす。翌年、日本はハワイの真珠湾を攻撃して太平洋戦争が勃発。たえず死と隣り合わせにある英一は、恋人の陽子と結婚するが、彼女に指一本触れることなく戦場に舞い戻る。
中学校の理科教師である城戸誠（沢田研二）は、茨城県東海村の原子力発電所から液体プルトニウムを強奪し、アパートの自室でハンドメイドの原爆を完成させた。そして、金属プルトニウムの欠片を仕込んだダミー原爆を国会議事堂に置き去り、日本政府を脅迫する。
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Ôwada's Thug
武道の達人たちが、秘術をつくして繰り広げる空手アクション「殺人拳」シリーズの第3弾。拳法家ばかりで構成される殺人者集団のボスを捕らえるため、無法街に飛び込んだ剣琢磨が、行く手に立ちふさがる謎の空手使いや武道の達人たちを相手に空手や拳法を駆使して立ち向かっていく。
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
1950年（昭和25年）、広島市。無銭飲食により博徒大友組・大友勝利のリンチを受けた復員兵・山中正治は、村岡組組長・村岡常夫の姪で未亡人である上原靖子によって手厚く看病される。その縁で山中は村岡組組員となるが、ふとした事から靖子と男女の関係となり、それが村岡組長の逆鱗に触れ山中は若頭・松永の指示で九州へ逃れる。しかし九州での和田組組長射殺事件により山中の名は裏社会で大きく轟くこととなり、山中は広島への帰参を許され、靖子との交際も村岡組長の認める所となった。
