The Game of Jou-Ou

Sakuya works part-time at a small snack bar. One night, she hears from Takahashi, a regular customer who used to frequent the legendary "Red Dragon" cabaret club in Roppongi when he was a prosperous man, that the club will soon reopen, and also hears about an incident involving a cabaret girl that caused the club to close... Finally, "Red Dragon" reopens! Sparks fly once again between the two top cabarets. As the legendary cabaret club reopens, the cabaret girls are all extremely talented. Among them is that Sakuya.

Mikayo has become the number one girl at Red Dragon, the most powerful cabaret club in Roppongi. However, after three years, Chizuru, the legendary Mistress King, returns to the club. Not wanting to be outdone by the legend, Mikayo begins to squeeze her customers to the limit. One day, one of Mikayo's customers stabs her because she has not been able to turn her back on him even though he has been paying her a lot of money. Mikayo survives, but is forced to stay in the hospital. Chizuru, on the other hand, lived up to her legendary name and extended her appointment. In fact, Chizuru had been hiding Saejima, the president of the now defunct Saejima Finance, in her own house out of sight of the underworld. Everything seems to be going well until Saejima leaks information that Chizuru is staying with him...

The legendary Roppongi cabaret club “Red Dragon” revives for the third time! Led by the unyielding number-one cast member, Karen, who was headhunted from Kabukicho, the club’s hostesses are once again making men dream tonight. Supporting them is the new cabaret hostess, Mikase, who has long dreamed of one day toppling Karen from her throne as cabaret queen and rising to the top herself. A year ago, Mikase—a college student struggling with job hunting—was scouted into the nightlife by the president, Kurosaki, during an interview. A fortune teller roaming the night streets foretold her destiny, saying, “You can only shine in the night world.” Before she knew it, Mikase found herself at “Red Dragon,” the club Kurosaki introduced her to. For a year she has been striving to become the absolute cabaret queen like Karen. In Mikase’s eyes, men have become nothing more than stacks of cash… that is, until that man appears―.

People tell lies with words through their cerebral neocortex. However, the moment before a person speaks, the mental reflexes of the limbic system will be apparent.

Rei is a college student in the midst of finding a job. She confesses her love to Mikio, a senior whom she admires. Mikio soon demands that she perform perverted acts.

A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.

A former actress trapped in an emotionally abusive marriage finds solace in cooking, until meeting an Italian chef who inspires her to reclaim her life.

In a small fishing village in northern Kanto, Nami stands at the edge of the dock, waiting for her husband’s boat to return. While waiting, Nami lives with her father-in-law, Gengoro, who uses her nightly as he pleases. One day, a man named Kaneda washes up at the port, in hiding after committing a heinous sex crime, and begins to work for a fisherman named Kunio. While Kaneda is doing his best to reform his life, all hell breaks loose when he crosses paths with Nami, and his natural urges kick back in.

Shino, who works at a real estate company, is having an affair with her older, married co-worker, Okumura. Wanting to save on hotel fees, Okumura suggests to Shino that they use a haunted property he is in charge of that has not been rented for many years as a hotel. Manami, a popular couple who stream videos about urban legends and ghost stories, senses that the property in question is the one that is the scariest haunted property that has only been rumored and that no one has ever successfully filmed, so she hides his identity and joins the real estate agency, but... [Exists in 2 different versions, R18 and R15, with 2 different titles].

Akira is a 30-year-old salaryman married to novelist Sonoko. After five years of marriage things between them have cooled and now they barely speak. One evening Akira is suddenly struck with an unbearable headache and, after being taken to the hospital, is told his illness is life-threatening. At the same time, a strange change starts to take over Akira’s body. The Akira who walks out of the operating theater has transformed into a woman!

Takato, an anime voice actor geek, borrows money from his father, Yusuke, to go to a fan event for the hit anime “Heavens Candy”. Shinya, who works at a boys’ bar run by Yusuke, is staying at Takato’s house, and he and Yusuke are secretly in love. Towa, a popular porn actor, goes to a fan event for “Heavens Candy” with his hair and makeup artist Satoshi, and then enters a coffee shop as an Anime pilgrimage. Takato is also in the coffee shop, and he and Towa see each other.

Rinko inherits her parents’ public bath after they pass away. She starts to manage the business with the help of an old and experienced worker, Mr. Tame. However, she soon realizes traditional public bath are no longer marketable in this new century. Rinko thinks of a "Bikini Body Wash Service" to attract more customers.

In an abandoned hospital known for being haunted, paranormal researcher Misawa gathers a group of men to listen to their experiences with supernatural phenomena. Hoping to summon forth a certain ghost, Misawa sets out to gather 100 ghost stories…

Seventeen-year-old Misaki endures a life marred by tragedy and abuse. Abandoned by her mother and forced to care for her bedridden sister, her home life becomes a battlefield of psychological terror, dominated by a father whose actions cross into the realm of the unthinkable. At school, Misaki finds no solace as her closest friend succumbs to the allure of degradation for material gain. The culmination of her suffering arrives through a series of brutal assaults, each encounter dragging her further into a vortex of despair, with only a mentally ill homeless woman offering a semblance of maternal comfort.

Michiru is a mysterious sex worker who visits a suburban motel once every year. In addition to her beautiful looks, she possesses a strange power: clients who have sex with her begin to perceive her as the woman they long for most. [Exists in two different versions (R15 and R18) with two different titles.]

Haruto is a freshman and a loner high school student until the arrival of the new teacher Aoyama. Aoyama cares for Haruto and starts to exchange letters with him, as something more grows inside both of them. But one night, an unexpected kiss ends their beautiful relationship. Three years later, Haruto has become a male prostitute in order to pay back his debts, when he reunites with Aoyama by chance. How will Haruto face his feelings for Aoyama when given a second chance? Should it be 'noir' or should it be 'blanc'? Two versions. Two completely different fates. (The two versions differ in the last 15 minutes)

How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, an office lady and a school girl) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the "king game." Whoever draws the king selects two others to enter a cage where one performs the most outrageous acts upon his or her unlucky victim. The game is played to the death. Survivor takes all, and the losers go home in body bags!

A small theatre troupe, "ENGINE," has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka. The young members of the troupe, including their lead actress Yamaguchi Mai, are working hard on their rehearsals, even skipping their sleep as the Tokyo performance is just around the corner. The piece they are working on this time is "DICE," the troupe's most famous work. It is a deeply memorable work for the troupe, which was first performed 10 years ago and will make its first performance in Tokyo soon. Therefore, the leader of the troupe, Mr Shigemori, is more enthusiastic than usual, but he is not satisfied with the performance of the troupe members and is becoming increasingly dissatisfied. Then... Mai discovers a VHS videotape labelled "DICE" in the company's archives. It contained rehearsal footage of the first performance 10 years ago... As soon as Mai and her friends see the videotape, strange and inexplicable phenomena begin to occur around them...