The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

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

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.