Wataru Konuma

늦은 밤 일군의 젊은이들이 외딴 집에 모여 그들의 성에서 일어나고 있는 부패를 일소하기로 결의한다. 하지만 곧 그들은 그곳에 또 한 명의 낯선 사람이 자신들의 얘기를 엿듣고 있다는 것을 알아챈다. 그는 산주로라는 이름의 떠돌이 사무라이로 그 젊은이들이 잘못된 판단을 하고 있다며 비웃는다. 그리고는 이 슬기롭지는 않지만 정의로운 젊은이들과 뜻을 같이 하기로 한다.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

전후의 일본, 한차례의 세력 다툼이 있은 후, 두목이 된 젊은 야쿠자가 알콜 중독자인 의사에게 치료를 받는다. 의사는 그 젊은이에게 결핵이라는 진단을 내리고 치료할 것을 권하며 곧 두 사람 사이에는 묘한 우정이 싹튼다. 하지만 얼마 후, 감옥에서 출소한 이전의 두목이 자신의 자리를 되찾으려 하면서 그 젊은 야쿠자는 곤경에 처하게 되는데...