Minoru Takeda
Mika, who grew up in an orphanage, having been abandoned soon after birth, begins to look for her mother Naoko. Finding Naoko living happily with her husband and teenage daughter Ayano, she continues to watch from afar...
A 17-year-old country boy named Norio decides his only option is to follow his late parents’ example and commit suicide. After failing even at that, his 34-year-old English teacher Akemi convinces him that he should instead move to Tokyo with her and become a lawyer on her dime. Unfortunately, Akemi doesn’t have quite as much money as she leads Norio to believe, and has to secretly get a job at a karaoke bar under the guise of “going to the salon”. Meanwhile, she continuously prods her somewhat dimwitted student to work harder toward her manufactured goal of him becoming a lawyer. Although Norio is falling in love with Akemi, he’s not all that interested in studying, and matters only get worse when he discovers his benefactor’s secret source of income.
Старшеклассница Норико живёт в Тоёкаве с родителями и младшей сестрой Юкой. В когда-то дружной семье теперь все стали друг другу чужими, и надеяться на понимание со стороны родителей не приходится. Норико чувствует, что задыхается, и её единственная отдушина — виртуальные подруги на сайте Haikyo.com. Однажды Норико собирает чемодан и, не сказав никому ни слова, отправляется в Токио, чтобы встретиться со совей родственной душой — девушкой под ником Ueno Station 54. Через полгода 54 школьницы одновременно бросаются под колёса поезда метро, и Юка начинает подозревать, что это как-то связано с исчезновением сестры. Она проводит небольшое расследование и тоже уезжает в Токио.
Itô - Assistant Police Inspector
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Based on real-life events, this erotic thriller tells the sad and sadistic tale of a Japanese geisha whose behavior spiraled out of control.
