Ryo Osugi

At a time when militarism was rampant, a fishing boat named "Bo Guang Maru" was tossed about in the rough waves of the Kamchatka Peninsula, carrying dozens of crab workers. This ship is owned by a food company specializing in the production of canned crab meat and is engaged in frantic fishing and production in the name of the empire. The crab workers come from various backgrounds, but none of them

Several bizarre murder cases have occurred in Tokyo one after another. All the corpses were engraved with the "X" symbol, and none of the suspects present could remember what they had done, which greatly puzzled the police. Detective Takahashi (played by Koji Yakusho) determines that someone is using hypnosis to commit the crime. A semi-amenorical young man, Mamiya (played by Saint Ogihara), who is wandering along the coast, becomes pregnant

In the vast and boundless Amano area of the Kochi region in Hokkaido, the two brothers, Aoki (played by Yo Oizumi) and Midori (played by Masataka Otani), depend on each other for survival. Aqing, who once pursued her dream of becoming a musician in Tokyo, has been cultivating the Pinot Noir grape, known as the "black Diamond", in the world left by her father for five years

When Yumi (played by Makiko Eko) was a child, her grandmother always ran away from home and insisted on returning to the countryside from the city to spend her old age. Once, she never came back. Later on, Yumi got married and had children, leading a poor but happy life. One day, her husband, Yufu (played by Tadanobu Asano), passed away unexpectedly. Yumi was widowed

In the sunny and comfortable April, the children of Class 2, Grade 6 of a certain primary school welcomed their new teacher, Mr. Xing (played by Satoshi Tsumabuki), and along with him came a cute little pig. Teacher Xing proposed an unimaginable plan for the children, which was that in the coming year, all the students of Class 2, Grade 6 would come together

The renowned director and master of violence, Takeshi Kitano (played by Takeshi Kitano), suddenly grew tired of the gangster films he had directed before and announced that he would never make gangster films again, venturing into other genres. Takeshi Kitano began to try various films. He shot family films in the style of Yasujiro Ozu, tear-jerking love films, and films reflecting the social features of the 1950s