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

日本航空公司构思了一个面向乘客的特别葡萄酒企划，应上级之托，国际航线空乘人员斋藤美穗（深田恭子 饰）肩负起远赴纽约评选葡萄酒的重任。对葡萄酒全无半点头绪的美穗，只得请求调来有侍酒资格证的速水朋子（吹石一惠 饰）前来帮忙。漫长的飞行结束后，她和朋子以及首次飞纽约的电影迷空乘渡部结（泷本美织 饰）终于抵达目的地，三个女子夹公夹私享受难得的假期。她们走遍各大酒庄，挑的眼花缭乱，始终没有拿定主意。偶然机缘，三人经某贸易公司老板中野茂利（宝田明 饰）来到名不见经传的奔马酒庄，结果意外找到令人满意的葡萄酒。这家酒庄产量虽少，却有着使人难以忘怀的味道，而如今面临被大公司收购的命运。 三个女孩与中野先生晚上在酒店庆祝，可是一觉醒来，却发现中野陈尸床上。是意外？还是他杀？

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

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.

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.

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

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.