청각 장애를 가진 권투 선수 케이코는 복싱클럽 관장과 코치의 도움 덕분에 프로 복싱계에 성공적으로 데뷔하고 승리를 이어간다. 매일 강도 높은 훈련을 묵묵히 반복하는 케이코, 하지만 복싱이 가진 폭력성에 익숙해지는 것은 아직까지 큰 숙제다. 경기 중 코치의 사인을 듣지 못하는 것도 어려움으로 작용하면서 계속 복싱 선수로 활동해도 될까 의구심이 생긴다. 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 훈련 받던 복싱 클럽이 문을 닫게 되고 관장의 건강 또한 심각하게 악화되는데 … 케이코는 다음 경기를 성공적으로 마칠 수 있을까?
Prosecutor Sakata of the Yonesaki District Public Prosecutors Office and his colleague Shoji are pulled into assisting the Tokyo Office’s Special Investigation Department to investigate influential Diet lawmaker Okouchi and Masumoto of a technical skills foundation. The two men are believed to be involved in a bribery case. But a key witness in this scandal commits suicide, and the next person believed to hold the key to the case, the foundation’s accountant, has disappeared.
Hirotoshi Honda, a teacher of a prestigious private girl’s high school, is arrested on suspicion of violating the nuisance prevention ordinance for molestation on a train and sent to prosecutor Sakata. High school student Reina claims he touched her buttocks in the packed train but Honda denies the crime and calls it a fabrication and claims he was blackmailed by Reina on the train platform. Reina denies his allegation. Even for a misdemeanor, Sakata believes not pursuing the truth is like death as a prosecutor.
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.
