خلاصه داستان : یک زن جوان به دلیل شرایط مجبور به ازدواج بدون عشق می شود در حالی که هنوز عاشق دیگری است. این داستان اپیزودیک داستان آنها را از طریق سه دهه درگیری تلخ دنبال می کند که فرزندان و اطرافیانشان را در بر می گیرد.

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.

خلاصه داستان : داستان خواهر ناتنی یکی از اعضای یاکوزا که با انتشار فیلمی که به طور مکرر واقعیت هایی غیر از آنچه قوانین عادی اجتماعی اجازه می دهد را به تصویر می کشد، دردسر را به زندگی خود راه می دهد.

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...

خلاصه داستان : "کانسوکه یاماموتو" سامورائی است که رویای یک کشور متحد و آرام را در سر دارد. او به خدمت "تاکدا"، لرد منطقه کای در می آید. او لرد را قانع می کند تا لرد منطقه همسایه را به قتل رسانده و همسر او را بدست آورد. او سپس "شاهزاده یو" را قانع می کند تا این...

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?