Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
森雅之
Haruki Murakami
三橋達也
Keikichi Murakami
石原まき子
Mikiko Mikihara
左幸子
Ruiko Aso
芦川いづみ
Tamako Murakami
新珠三千代
Kumiko Yamana
二本柳寛
Masataka Tsuzuki
牧真介
Tatsujirô Aso
天草四郎
Yamaguchi, Photo Shop Owner
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
นิชิ เป็นตำรวจที่พบกับวิกฤตอันร้ายแรงในชีวิต ลูกสาวของเขาเพิ่งเสียชีวิตลง ภรรยาของเขาก็ป่วยเป็นโรคลูคีเมีย อีกทั้งเพื่อนของเขาก็ถูกคนร้ายยิงจนพิการ และลูกน้องคนหนึ่งก็เสียชีวิตลงในขณะปฏิบัติหน้าที่ เขาจึงลาออกจากงานตำรวจ เขาได้ยืมเงินจากยากูซ่าเป็นจำนวนมาก รวมทั้งวางแผนปล้นธนาคาร แต่ไม่มีใครคาดคิดว่า เงินทั้งหมดนั้น เขาไม่ได้หามาเพื่อตัวเอง หากแต่เพื่อสร้างความสุขให้คนในครอบครัวและภรรยาที่ใกล้ตาย เพื่อนผู้พิการ และภรรยาของลูกน้องที่จบชีวิตลง
When Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress. Quite by chance, whilst looking to reserve a location for a shoot, he happens to encounter her at a love hotel where she works as a receptionist. Her name is Nami and she reluctantly agrees to speak with him, and confesses that it was her in the film. Then, Muraki tells Nami that he wants her to model for him.
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
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.
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.