Jun Kokushi, the poster girl of a mahjong parlor, is living a happy life, having arranged to marry Kyosuke, who aspires to become a professional mahjong player. Her father, Tetsuji, used to work as a substitute for the yakuza, but decided to retire after Jun's marriage. One day, Tetsuji is killed by a rival gang's scheme and underhanded tactics...
Riri Kuribayashi
Naoyuki Chiba
Hiroshi Fujita
Ryôichi Inaba
Junichiro Asano
Jun Kokushi, the poster girl of a mahjong parlor, is living a happy life, having arranged to marry Kyosuke, who aspires to become a professional mahjong player. Her father, Tetsuji, used to work as a substitute for the yakuza, but decided to retire after Jun's marriage. One day, Tetsuji is killed by a rival gang's scheme and underhanded tactics...
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.
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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.
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.
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
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.
Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
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.