In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
Filipinas, 1945. O Exército Imperial Japones foi reduzido a um bando de maltrapilhos escondidos nas florestas. Entre eles está o soldado Tamura. A situação vai de ruim a péssima e face as condições extremas que os homens enfrentam, alguns enlouquecem e outros sobrevivem através do assassínio e canibalismo. Em meio a isso tudo, o soldado Tamura tenta sobreviver sem abandonar os seus princípios.