Hideko Okiyama

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.

A stylist and jazz lover meets a jazz musician who plays exceptionally well at a live music venue, and they fall in love. For the woman, love means intensely desiring the other person to the point of suffocation every single second, and that's how they truly love each other. Then the man receives an offer for a long-term performance in New York. For a jazz musician, a New York performance is a dream. The man leaves. At first, the woman is almost driven mad by loneliness, but eventually she starts to try to distract herself from that loneliness with other men. It is then that she realizes she is pregnant with the man's child…