Gō Awazu

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Blind masseur Ichi, a defender of the innocent, gets entangled in a clash between rival Yakuza clans in a rural village, leading to bloody sword battles as he tries to maintain peace and shield villagers from the gang war.

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the...

The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.