A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.

Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main financial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.

A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smuggler and dealer. He is acquainted with Larry, a Japanese American, but he turned out to be an undercover cop from New York.

At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. It’s customers who have a dark past have utmost respect for Ikuzo. One day, a half-dead man Tomijiro comes to the restaurant. This is the beginning of Ikuzo’s terrible fight.

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after another. Sakai Utanokamike, the Rozyu, is turned out to be involved in this scheme, and the aim is to destroy the Date family. Tsunamune's brother Munekatsu Date who is willing to take over the family doesn't know the real purpose of Utanokami and helps him. Munesuku Harada gets to know the whole picture of the incident and takes action alone for the sake of protecting the Date family, leaving his own family. His lonely fight continues for 10 years and he got in danger in Utanokamike's house, and...

Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), by chance arrests Neko (Emoto), an accomplished middle aged burglar who has just fixed Misaki's bicycle. After Neko has several weeks to see Jin in the interrogation room, he decides to confess to Jin and teach him how to become a capable detective and worthy adversary. By the time Neko serves his 10 year sentence, Jin is a highly regarded detective and they can they start their contest in earnest.

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

这是一部荣获1999年日本民间放送联盟奖最优秀奖、第37届银河奖大奖的经典作品。改编自久间十义的同名警察小说。
一名大藏省官员坠楼身亡。这是自杀还是他杀？刑警松浦（役所广司饰演）在紧急召开的搜查会议上迅速掌握了暗示他杀的间接证据。然而，这起死亡事件却突然被断定为自杀，调查也因此被叫停。
这是一位正义感十足的刑警，为揭开牵涉首相官邸的贪腐事件真相，冒着生命危险展开追查的故事。

室町時代中期、将軍・足利義政夫人で悪女とも評される日野富子の生涯と、応仁の乱およびその前後の状況を描く。1993年から翌年にかけては、中世の東北地方を舞台とした前作『炎立つ』、琉球王国を舞台とした前々作『琉球の風』など、それまで扱ってこなかった時代や地域をテーマとした作品が3作続けて製作され、3作目の本作では平安建都（遷都）1200年を記念して映像作品が皆無に近い狭義の室町時代を取り上げた大河ドラマとなった。近時代には1991年の『太平記』後半が室町幕府創設期となるが、南北朝時代や戦国時代との重複期間を除いた純然たる室町期を正面から舞台とした作品は、これが初の試みとなった。ちなみに、織豊政権時代よりも前の時代を扱った作品が2作連続で放送されたのは、2011年現在本作が唯一である（ただし、上記の通り『炎立つ』と同時代を描いているわけではない）。
しかし、狭義の室町時代は一般レベルでの馴染みや関心がほとんどない時代であることに加えて、ドラマ本編が非常に複雑で暗いストーリーだったためか、平均視聴率は14.1%、最高視聴率は18.3%（いずれも関東地区、2008年3月現在）と、共に歴代の大河ドラマでは最も低い数値を記録した。ただし、放送日程が極めて変則的（4月から放送された大河ドラマは本作と第1回作品『花の生涯』のみ。他には『炎立つ』が7月放送開始。本作品を含め、9ヶ月完結は3作品のみであった）であったため、一概に他作品と比較できない面もある。
その後の松・新之助・萬斎らの人気もあって、2000年8月から11月にかけて「大河ドラマアンコール」と題してNHK総合テレビにおいて平日15時台に全編が再放送された（大相撲秋場所中継・国会中継のため一時中断）。ソフトとしては総集編のVHS、完全版のDVDが発売されている。

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.