Set in a prison, this fifth installment of the Mahjong Horoki series follows amateur gambler Tetsu and his companion An, both jailed after a confrontation with a death-row inmate. There, a warden secretly brings a mahjong table into the cell, leading to high-stakes games where prisoners wager meals and status to survive.
Shōhei Hino
Sanshō Shinsui
Yushi Nakamura
Akira Yamamura
Shinobu Sakagami
Set in a prison, this fifth installment of the Mahjong Horoki series follows amateur gambler Tetsu and his companion An, both jailed after a confrontation with a death-row inmate. There, a warden secretly brings a mahjong table into the cell, leading to high-stakes games where prisoners wager meals and status to survive.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
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.
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
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.
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.