Jun Negami

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape-changing, supernatural creature.