The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

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