Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
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.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Eye-popping visuals and black humor mark this wild New Wave masterpiece about a vengeful contractor who hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Nurse
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
오밀조밀 모여 서로가 서로에 대해 훤히 알고 지내는 마을에서 이웃들간에 사소한 여러 가지 일들이 벌어진다. 접촉이 많으니 만큼 별 것 아닌 마찰도 많고 서로에 대한 구설수도 많다. 보수적인 이웃사람들로부터 문제아로 손가락질받는 신세대 부부는 텔레비젼을 갖고 있고, 그래서 그 집에는 동네 아이들이 항상 들끓는다. 어른들은 아이들이 신세대 부부와 접촉하는 것을 못마땅해 하며 눈살을 찌푸린다. 그 집에 모이는 아이들 중에는 미노루와 이사무 형제도 끼어 있는데, 부모에게 텔레비젼을 사달라고 조른다. 부모는 안된다고 딱 잘라 말하지만, 어린 두 꼬마는 묵비권을 행사하며 불만을 표시한다. 가족들에게는 물론 이웃 어른에게나 학교 선생님에게까지도 계속되는 침묵의 시위는 많은 문제를 야기시킨다. 아침인사를 먼저 건낸 이웃집 아주머니는 아이들의 묵묵부답이 부모가 시켜서 일부러 모른 척하는 것이 아닐까 하는 오해를 하게 되고, 이것은 이웃간의 불화를 조장하는 하나의 시발점이 된다.
