Yûko Ishiwa

This episode starts with a request for a pop-star to be raped into humility by her personal-assistant, who the star had treated like crap. The pop-star get's hers when Rapeman shows her that she ain't always the boss. From there the story shifts gears when a Senator's secretary seeks out Rapeman's services to rape his fiancé who has been brainwashed by a local cult. According to the by-laws of the cult - if the woman has sex with a non-member, then she will be disassociated from the cult, thus bringing the wife back to her husband. This back-fires when the cult does not ex-communicate her - so Keisuke and Uncle infiltrate the cult to get to the bottom of their shady dealings. The resulting investigation embroils the duo in a conspiracy between the cult and a sleazy politician that can only be "righted through penetration"...

A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is always a willing lady to spend the rest of the night with. In the street he has countless semi-philosophical discussions with fellow drinkers, male and female, (shot in black-and-white, as prologue to the different chapters) but in the end it often comes down to one thing: the bottle of whisky that has to be finished. An encounter with a homeless young man with AIDS marks a turning point in the life of the writer.

Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.

Akira Kurosawa dit de ce film composé de huit rêves ("Soleil sous la pluie", "le Verger aux pêchers", "la Tempête de neige", "le Tunnel", "les Corbeaux", "le Mont Fuji en rouge", "les Démons gémissants", "le Village des moulins à eau") : "Quand il rêve, l'homme est un génie. Il est audacieux et intrépide comme un génie. Voilà ce à quoi je me suis attaché au moment de filmer ces huit rêves. Pour faire un film de ce scénario, il était indispensable de s'exprimer avec audace et sans peur... comme dans un rêve."