Tomiko, a housewife, composes Tanka as a hobby. Tomiko's husband, Nobuo, who thought she was submissive, is surprised to find that Tomiko's tanka is radical. Nobuo takes the contents of her tanka seriously and suspects that Tomiko is cheating on her, so he ties her up with a belt and punishes her, but he becomes lustful at the sight of her tied up...
Natsumi Ono
Hiromi Saotome
Misao Yanagi
RAY
Etsuko Goto
Seiji Nakamitsu
Toru Tsukahara
Kazu Itsuki
Shuji Yokota
Ryou Kurihara
Tomiko's Husband Nobuo
Yoriko Ogawa
Tomiko Takabatake
Tomiko, a housewife, composes Tanka as a hobby. Tomiko's husband, Nobuo, who thought she was submissive, is surprised to find that Tomiko's tanka is radical. Nobuo takes the contents of her tanka seriously and suspects that Tomiko is cheating on her, so he ties her up with a belt and punishes her, but he becomes lustful at the sight of her tied up...
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.