A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box. Inspired by the 1974 novel by Kobo Abe.

A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the greed of the businessmen escalates, the economy collapses, and a young man becomes a poet and gives the people hope.

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Black comedy in which the various characters an honest young tax collector encounters, as he tries to enforce the law, present a scathing portrait of post WWII corruption, immorality, poverty, insanity, and the fear of atomic war.