After losing her husband, Terumi, in the earthquake disaster, Namiko lives alone in Tokyo. To ease her loneliness without Terumi, she repeatedly has fleeting encounters with men from her company. Though she may have given in to his body, her heart will always belong to Terumi. One day, Namiko is reunited with Terumi's mother, Fuku, at his grave.
Nana Aida
Ruiko Karahashi
Yōko Satomi
Keiko Karahashi
Motoko Sasaki
Maki Karahashi
Ryôko Inaba
Fuku Karahashi
Yasunari Kubota
Ikkyo Kume
Tarō Araki
Kyôkei Karahashi
Takahiko Kobayashi
Shin'ichi Karahashi
Takahiro Nomura
Shinsuke Ikushima
Hajime Ota
Rokusuke
After losing her husband, Terumi, in the earthquake disaster, Namiko lives alone in Tokyo. To ease her loneliness without Terumi, she repeatedly has fleeting encounters with men from her company. Though she may have given in to his body, her heart will always belong to Terumi. One day, Namiko is reunited with Terumi's mother, Fuku, at his grave.
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.
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
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.
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
In February 1999, a string of murders has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou on edge. These crimes share a disturbing resemblance to a similar set of homicides from 1995, when Shiki and Mikiya first met, and awaken a dark, murderous desire that has laid dormant within Shiki's soul ever since then.
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
January 1999: Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou, Mikiya's younger sister, has been ordered by her mentor, Touko Aozaki, to investigate a certain incident in which fairies steal the memories of students at Azaka's school, Reien Academy. Azaka launches an investigation with the help of Shiki.