Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

正在竞选议员的高仓正纪（沢村一樹 饰）与绘本作家阳子（松雪泰子 饰）是一对恩爱夫妇。阳子不久前根据当年与之同在孤儿院长大的好友相田晴美（りょう 饰）的亲身创作了绘本《天蓝丝带》，由此赢得广泛关注，同时正纪的政治生涯也进入最关键的时刻。恰在此时，夫妻俩的孩子裕太遭人绑架，犯人发来传真，要求他们公布事实真相。阳子原本因为出身便不为夫家及后援会的负责人所喜爱，如今更处于孤立的状态。万般无奈之下，她只得求助于晴美协助寻找儿子的下落。而在这一过程中，一起沉疴已35年的杀人案悄悄浮上了水面……
本片根据凑佳苗的同名原著改编。

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.