涅槃の人

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.

Yuji is an university student living with his older brother. When he runs into an old acquaintance on the street, the two begin an affair and Yuji ends up getting drawn into the world of S&M clubs, where men put up elaborate and decadent shows for their customers.

A magazine reporter is told to investigate the murder of a young man with ties to the gay S&M scene.

A gay college student who has been in love with his childhood friend for over 10 years. That male friend and his girlfriend find out that he's gay and tell the whole school about it. In order to take revenge, the hurt protagonist asks a gay acquaintance to imprison his friend and train him in SM, trying to make him learn the taste of men...

A master of Japanese dance living in Kyoto was said to be a master, had many disciples, and was at the height of his fame. However, his master was involved in a traffic accident and became paralyzed from the waist down. Seeing that there was no point in following a master who could no longer dance, the disciples left one by one, and only one remained...

Atsushi is a boy who is autistic and has cut his wrist many times. His lover, Masaaki, wants to save him somehow. This shocking work depicts their love escapade in the SM genre in a radical and head-on manner. This is the fifth installment in the hit series that depicts the clumsy, innocent love of two people living hard in modern society.

A young, talented art student and an illustrator who recognizes his talent. While the two of them are living together, a beautiful male nude model appears, and everything falls apart...

A rich and frail boy receives a threatening letter of kidnapping. Kazama, a swimmer, is hired as the son's bodyguard. While protecting the boy from the evil hands of the kidnappers, he also instils the taste of men into the boy.

Wataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they are ambushed. Their attackers, who identify themselves as the "Noblemen Squad" take Makoto hostage and leave Wataru and their female manager behind. Luckily, the manager's brother (Ren Osugi, here working under the pseudonym Kyoji Saeki) drops by and starts training Wataru so he can rescue his partner.