Two interwoven stories The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugis theories
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husbands three friends
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father
Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel
A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring
An engineers wife returns home with a lost teenager A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, f
Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro He agrees to fight him in a years time
A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy familys home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends