A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

奥山（仲代达矢 饰）在一次事故中，灼伤了脸，致使其面目全非，在丧失容颜的同时也把过去的自己给丧失了。整日缠着绷带不愿揭下，开始怀疑自己的存在。某一天，突袭妻子（京町子 饰），发现妻子尽然不愿同其温存，让奥山的愤怒达到顶峰。
奥山去寻求精神科医生的帮助，想要向其妻子发起一场复仇之旅。医生对奥山的提议很感兴趣，想要借其做一场实验。于是为奥山量身打造了一张足以引起人嫉妒的面具。起先还不适应面具的奥山深入人群中还会感到恐慌，但渐渐适应后，愈发习惯这张新的脸孔，奥山买了之前决不会穿的花哨衣服，酒量也和脸孔匹配似的减少。面具在无形中操控了奥山本人。随着对面具的驾轻就熟，复仇之旅也开始了。不出意料，妻子陷入了奥山布置的陷阱，在要收获复仇快感的同时，妻子却道出了让人惊讶的事实。面具后的奥山掩藏了自我，看似自由，但其实却和孤独越来越近……

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.

A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the greed of the businessmen escalates, the economy collapses, and a young man becomes a poet and gives the people hope.

巣鴨拘留所－－那里文明和和平的名义被判刑的战犯们服刑的。其中一个山下，战时南方上司的命令滨一个人的原住民杀了，不过，那个滨田的密告中重体力劳动终身刑的判决。另外横战时美国俘虏收容所的翻译了巣鴨只是被列入了。而且战时，横只被一个人类的少女”的一个温柔的ヨシ子，现在是涩谷的特飲街工作的女人。朝鲜人的许，神经质的山下也这样的刻印战犯被推的遇难者的一个人而已。逃脱失败了的山下那个紧接之后知道了母亲的死。定时决定来源被允许了的山下，滨田有女人的山下的家到现在持续迫害了的事情知道一切的愤怒和不由得比方了。可是恐怖扭曲的滨田的表情看了的山下，杀意也不做了。唯一的妹妹，“今后怎么办？”据说山下这样的问题，“活下去。”这时回答了。横们再次迎接，拘留所的穿过门山下，然后在那里，再次热只是等待着的墙壁。...

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.