Izumi Yasuura, who came to a port town, started working at a snack run by Mako. Izumi's mild personality and cute appearance make him a popular figure among florist Shoichi and regular customers. One evening, Izumi meets Mikio, who plays a folk guitar alone at the foot of the bridge. Eventually they fell in love and started living together. However, a few years later, Mikio transformed into a thug and became a string of springs ...
Meguri Fujiura
Izumi Yasuura
Yui Kasugano
Bun Nakamura
Azusa Sakai
Sae Akiyama
Sousuke Yamamoto
Mikio Nagai
Tomohiro Okada
Isao Takamura
Seiji Nakamitsu
Shôichi Kagenuma
Syoko Kudo
Mako Fujita
Hiromi Hirose
Cinema owner's father
Izumi Yasuura, who came to a port town, started working at a snack run by Mako. Izumi's mild personality and cute appearance make him a popular figure among florist Shoichi and regular customers. One evening, Izumi meets Mikio, who plays a folk guitar alone at the foot of the bridge. Eventually they fell in love and started living together. However, a few years later, Mikio transformed into a thug and became a string of springs ...
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 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.
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 jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
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.
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.
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
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.