Script
마루카와 서점의 제작부 사원과 영업부 사원의 결혼식에 초대받은 에메랄드 편집부 직원들은 신부의 부탁을 받고 뒤풀이에 참석한다. 손님으로 참석한 자리지만 하객의 대부분이 업계 관계자들이다 보니 편집부원들은 그들을 챙기느라 피곤함을 느낀다. 뒤풀이 장소에서 타카노 마사무네가 손가락을 베인 걸 보고 걱정이 된 오노데라 리츠는 늘 갖고 다니던 반창고를 붙여 준다. 그러자 마사무네는 리츠의 약지에도 반창고를 감으며 의미심장한 말을 던지는데...
A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
Tamaoka
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the business, Mine is put to the ultimate test when a former gangster sets his sights on closing her down.
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.
Yasue Murata
낮에는 조선소에서 일하고 밤에는 철조망이 쳐진 기숙사에서 지내는 시마자키는 거친 일과 가난한 현실이 불만스럽다. 패싸움 등 하루가 멀다 하고 사건이 발생하는 힘든 일상 속에서 그나마 위로가 되는 것은 이웃에 사는 미코지만 그는 그녀에게도 쉽게 마음을 주지 않는다. 하지만 시간이 흐르며 조금씩 여유를 갖기 시작한 시마자키는 동료들과 짧은 일탈을 시도한다.
Shige
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.
Okiyo
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the two young lovers take flight to Yamato, but, as in Chikamatsu's other domestic tragedies of love and duty (known as sewamono), they must be pursued and their passion destroyed by death. Favourite Uchida themes, such as the indenturing of a prostitute (cf. YOSHIWARA; A BLOODY SPEAR AT MT. FUJI), and his characteristic emphasis on performance and theatrical artifice re-emerge here; but the daring device of having Chikamatsu appear as a character - not unlike having Shakespeare interpolated into a film adaptation of one of his plays - is just one of many surprises this remarkable film holds. “Extraordinary” (Donald Richie).
Kurama Tengu is a hero to the common people, saving them from the malicious attacks of Kinnoroshi and Shinsengumi.
Ōhōri Tsuruhime
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and leaves the clan. Seven years later, he joins Toyotomi Hideyori's army. Filmed in 1945 and released in 1952.
A Man of the Arts
Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman
