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This film is the second installment in a Shimane trilogy by director Yoshinari Nishikori, following White Ship. Tetsuro, a third-year high school student living in Unnan City, delivers milk produced at his father’s factory to his hospitalized mother every morning. As he approaches graduation, he finds himself troubled by his future path and his feelings for his classmate Takako. His friends Yuji and Kumiko try to help his romance succeed, but things don’t go as planned… Set in Unnan, a region dotted with sites tied to ancient mythology, the film portrays the everyday lives of the people who live there in a gentle human drama.
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Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.