Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Geçmişteki bir davadan dolayı psiklojisi bozulduğu için alkole sığınan ve bu sebeple eşinden boşanıp 5 yaşındaki kızının velayetini almak için uğraşan avukat Cate McCall; aynı zamanda önemli bir cinayet davasını üstlenir, haksız yere hüküm giymiş Lacey’nin davasını alır. Bütün deliller, olay yeri incelemeleri kadının suçsuz olduğunu ispatlasa da Cate McCall yargı duvarına toslar. Kendisinden başka kimse Lacey’nin masumluğuna inanmamaktadır. Önyargıları sağlam savunmayla yıkmaya niyetli olan McCall adalet sisteminin doğru şekilde işlemesi için varını yoğunu ortaya koyacaktır. Önünde iki yol vardır; ya mesleğinde ilerlemek için bu davayı kazanmaya çalışmak ya da kızının velayeti alabilmek için ona daha fazla vakit ayırmak..