In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Kazama Masa (Shinji's grandmother)
1944년. 도쿄 공습을 피해 토야마富山 친척집에 혼자 피난 내려온 신지는, 시골 학교에서 낯선 생활에 적응해야 한다. 신지가 들어간 5학년 남자반은 다케시라는 급장이 확실하게 권력을 휘두르고 있다. 다른 아이들보다 머리 하나는 더 크고 힘쎈 다케시의 횡포에 아이들은 꼼짝 못하고, 신지는 그런 다케시에게 저항을 시도해 보지만 곧 눈물을 흘리며 다케시가 원하는 것을 뭐든지 해주는 처지에 빠진다.
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Sawa
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and his son Masao.
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.
Oyone
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
