When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

明治34年（1901年），国际局势风起云涌，日俄战争爆发在即。为了应对严寒地带作战的艰苦环境，日本陆军高层决定进行一次演习，并将演习地点定在了高耸险峻、严寒冰冷的八甲田山。演习队伍分成两支，分别由弘前第31连队的德岛大尉（高倉健 饰）和青森第5连队的神田大尉（北大路欣也 饰）领导。德岛具有丰富的雪原行军经验，他和神田仔细研究了行军路线，并相约在目的地会合。然而神田的上司山田少佐（三國連太郎 饰）一门心思击败友军，不仅擅自扩编行军人数，还粗暴地打乱既定的计划。他的颟顸将第5连队引向了死亡之途……
本片根据新田次郎的小说《八甲田山死の彷徨》改编。

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.