Rena Uchimura

Deux histoires se déroulant à Edo à l'époque du Shogun. 1 - A une époque où les chrétiens sont persécutés avec véhémence, Iori tombe amoureux d'une jeune chrétienne. Lorsqu'elle et sa famille sont capturées lors d'un raid, son maître sadique la prend comme esclave personnelle pour tourmenter Iori et tente de briser son esprit par le viol, la torture et le sadisme pur. Après qu'Iori ait refusé de participer plus longtemps, il est exilé, mais jure de la récupérer quoi qu'il en coûte. 2 - Lorsque Sutezo est contraint de servir le maître violent d'un bordel afin de rembourser ses dettes, sur place, il se lie d'amitié avec une jeune fille nommée Sato. Ensemble, ils s'échappent et tentent de se débrouiller en vivant d'escroqueries et de petits larcins.

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.