Masahiro Nishikawa

Midori, a furniture designer, and Shigeru, a lawyer, are both divorced and have been maintaining an "adult relationship" for several years. However, Midori has begun to suspect that Shigeru—who claims to be busy with work—has found a younger woman. One day, while on a bus, Midori is groped by a mysterious, beautiful young man. This incident triggers a relentless stalking campaign by the youth against her...

Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.

Kazuo met Kayo—a hostess with an unglamorous appearance and a lack of overt sex appeal—at a bar; he began frequenting the establishment and eventually secured a date with her. On the day of the date, Kayo was dressed just as plainly as before; when Kazuo asked why, she explained that she was hiding burn marks. That night, the two became intimate in a hotel room, though Kayo refused to let him remove her *yukata*. Unable to suppress his curiosity, Kazuo undressed her while she slept, revealing burn scars on her thighs and linear scars across her abdomen...

Natsuo, a rookie detective and closeted gay man, secretly admires his calm and stoic senior, Kirino. During a late-night pursuit of a convenience-store thief, the two are overpowered and assaulted, leaving Natsuo shattered and disillusioned. While he begins to distance himself from Koide, the man he once connected with, Koide unexpectedly encounters Kirino at a bar, leading to a dangerous entanglement. As desire, betrayal, and trauma collide, the three officers are pulled into a dark triangle where love and danger blur—and finding a way out becomes increasingly uncertain.

Nomura secretly hoped to see Sayuri, his first love. Sayuri, the daughter of a small movie theater owner, was already in the midst of marriage arrangements with her childhood friend, Kimio. Nomura imagined himself sweeping her away from Kimio—picturing the scene as if it were straight out of a movie—but that fantasy was abruptly shattered by a call from his own fiancée, Mika.

Nari runs the hot spring inn left behind by her late husband. One day, her husband's younger brother, Koji, returns home. The next morning, upon waking, Nari finds herself transformed into Makiko in a Tokyo apartment; she realizes she had merely been dreaming that she was a widowed innkeeper in the countryside...