Eikichi Shida, who works in the sales department of Jinbo Bussan, receives a scouting offer from Sakiko Minagawa, the secretary to the president of Nishida Bussan. The president of Nishida Bussan was originally a general manager at Jinbo Bussan, but he created his own company and started to ravage all of Jinbo Bussan's clients.... For the first time, Akira Kobayashi takes on the role of a passionate employee and faces corporate competition.
Eikichi Shida, who works in the sales department of Jinbo Bussan, receives a scouting offer from Sakiko Minagawa, the secretary to the president of Nishida Bussan. The president of Nishida Bussan was originally a general manager at Jinbo Bussan, but he created his own company and started to ravage all of Jinbo Bussan's clients.... For the first time, Akira Kobayashi takes on the role of a passionate employee and faces corporate competition.
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.