"Trembling with the ecstasy of suffering, the woman looked into the abyss of destruction."
Misa was accused of shoplifting and was stripped naked and searched. Her girlfriend, a nurse, met Yamaguchi, a doctor. Yamaguchi has deep wounds in his heart, and Misa watches over him. However, after a failed surgical operation, Yamaguchi transforms into a sadist and begins abusing Misa. She awakens to the world of masochists and realizes the joy of servitude.
Minako Ogawa
Misa Kawamura
Naomi Sugishita
Misawa
Kazuyo Ezaki
Yūji Nogami
Yamaguchi
Kyoko Nakazawa
Reiko Segawa
Fumi Nakata
Nen Hisaki
Misa was accused of shoplifting and was stripped naked and searched. Her girlfriend, a nurse, met Yamaguchi, a doctor. Yamaguchi has deep wounds in his heart, and Misa watches over him. However, after a failed surgical operation, Yamaguchi transforms into a sadist and begins abusing Misa. She awakens to the world of masochists and realizes the joy of servitude.
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.
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.
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.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
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.
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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.
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.