烨岛直美（山口百惠 饰）是外交官的女儿，在一次意外中被流氓缠上，所幸得到了一个名为次郎（三浦友和 饰）的男人的帮助才得以脱险，最终次郎失手杀死了流氓，自己也身受重伤。一天后，次郎被警方带走调查，这一消息被直美得知，直美来到警署，愿意证明次郎的清白。
之后，直美和次郎再一次在新宿重逢，此时的直美已经深深的爱上了次郎，她邀请次郎参加自己的生日派对。直美的家人安排她前往巴黎留学，在离开之际，直美希望能够最后见次郎一次。与此同时，次郎杀死的流氓系黑帮冢田组的成员，为了替他报仇，冢田组派出了杀手想要追杀次郎。

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.