Keiko Takahashi

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

The world is full of me.

A teacher and student reunite after moving on from their respective school years, and start a relationship.

After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Shinsuke's life from infancy to teens revolves around coal mining. His father sacrifices himself rescuing trapped miners. Shinsuke and his mother receive support from a kind Korean man and a yakuza biker as they cope with the loss.