When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Tokyo, and with an aging gangster.
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Ронина Гэнгобэ изгнали из клана Асано за долги. Теперь 47 ронинов клана Асано готовятся совершить свою великую месть, а Гэнгобэ не берут, пока тот не вернет деньги. Единственная его отдушина — гейша Коман, которая даже сделала татуировку верности своему покровителю. Слуга приносит Гэнгобэ 100 рё, собранные для него простыми крестьянами, и в этот же момент хозяин чайного дома приходит и рассказывает, что Коман жить без него не может, а некий богатый господин собирается её выкупить. Вскоре перед самураем будет разыгран настоящий спектакль — гейша и её сообщники из кожи вон готовы лезть, чтобы выманить у Гэнгобэ деньги.
История о том, как война повлияла на жизнь пяти поколений японской семьи. Первая часть рассказывает о становлении клана Годаи, начинавшего со спекуляций на военных поставках и выросшего до уровня влиятельных индустриалистов в Маньчжурии 1930-х годов.
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
