임신 3개월인 유미코는 교통사고로 사랑하는 남편을 잃는다. 상심에 빠진 유미코는 과거를 잊기 위해 아이를 지우고, 아오모리로 옮겨 여관 일을 도우며 지낸다. 하지만 그곳에서 유미코는 남편을 죽인 미지마를 만나게 되는데, 그녀의 마음 속에서 증오와 연모의 감정이 어지럽게 교차하고, 유미코는 복잡한 감정에 휩싸이고 만다.
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
친구인 스기모토와 다시로는 스기모토의 아내 사유리가 갑작스럽게 사고를 당했다는 소식을 듣는다. 스기모토는 처음엔 교통사고 정도로 생각했지만 더 심각한 범죄가 벌어졌다는 걸 곧 알게 되고, 아내가 지금까지 어떤 비밀을 숨기고 있었다는 것도 알게 된다. 한편 다시로 역시 이 사건과 어떤 연관이 있음이 드러난다. 에드워드 아티야의 범죄 소설 『가는 선』(1951)을 원작으로 한 작품
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
