喪服妻奥義　－腰ば乃＂の字で－

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.

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.

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

ภายหลังพ้นโทษจากเรือนจำ ซึสึโกะ สัมผัสได้ว่าผู้คนรอบข้างต่างมองเธอแบบไม่ไว้ใจ เธอรู้สึกผิดหวังและตัดสินใจออกเดินทางด้วยความรู้สึกเจ็บปวด พร้อมกับตั้งกฎให้กับตัวเองว่า จะออกเดินทางไปยังเมืองอื่น ๆ ทันทีที่เก็บเงินได้ครบหนึ่งล้านเยน การเดินทางของเธอในครั้งนี้เสมือนการค้นหาตัวตน พร้อม ๆ กับกอบกู้เศษซากชีวิตที่เคยทำหล่นหายไปในอดีต เพื่อเรียนรู้ที่จะไว้ใจคนอื่นอีกครั้ง

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.