Bonded by Sorrow

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.

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.

After learning Otoya's secret marriage, Junpei is torn, but Otoya offers a solution: move in together as roommates, navigating their complicated feelings.

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.

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)

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.]

Masayuki visits a hot spring inn hidden deep in the mountains. He first visited the inn five years ago with his wife Yukari, who is no longer around. During Masayuki’s stay, the inn’s landlady, Tamami, makes him feel right at home — but then his former mistress Miyu pays him an unexpected visit… [Exists in two different versions (R18 and R15) with three diffferent titles.]

Yukiko, a member of a movie study group, follows the rumor of a ghost that inhabits an abandoned movie theater with two of her study group cohorts, Shinoda and Imamura, in order to film the ghost of an actress roams there. After she watch an old film, strange things begin to happen around her. When Shinoda goes missing, she goes back to the theater to find the truth of the place, despite her fear.

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!

Two Japanese girls (one of them is a schoolgirl trained to be killer and another one is a lesbian) fighting with each other with incredibly bloody results.

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...