Chihiro is a hospital surgeon in a hospital headed by his father. He is excellent and has a good reputation, but in secret he is using drugs and hallucinating. One day a new nurse named Wataru is appointed. Chihiro and Wataru get to know each other. One night, Chihiro falls ssleep and has a dream, embracing Wataru in a drug hallucination. From that day on he often follows Wataru, pretending it is a coincidence and participating in Wataru's favorite activity of basketball with him. However, there is another person who has an interest for Wataru. It's Shiomi, a secretary-general. Both Wataru and Shiomi confess to Wataru but Wataru sleeps with Chihiro. Shiomi makes plans to tear Chihiro and Wataru apart.
Chihiro is a hospital surgeon in a hospital headed by his father. He is excellent and has a good reputation, but in secret he is using drugs and hallucinating. One day a new nurse named Wataru is appointed. Chihiro and Wataru get to know each other. One night, Chihiro falls ssleep and has a dream, embracing Wataru in a drug hallucination. From that day on he often follows Wataru, pretending it is a coincidence and participating in Wataru's favorite activity of basketball with him. However, there is another person who has an interest for Wataru. It's Shiomi, a secretary-general. Both Wataru and Shiomi confess to Wataru but Wataru sleeps with Chihiro. Shiomi makes plans to tear Chihiro and Wataru apart.
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Matsutaro runs a small movie theater, but due to the recession, it is not very popular. His wife Junko lives separately from him because he is impotent, and runs a video shop. One day, a young woman named Mirai attempts suicide in the movie theater. Mirai regains her strength and starts using the massage techniques she learned at the soapland to cure Matsutaro's impotence, but...
Yoshioka is a struggling sensual novel author. His wife, Michiru, believes in his talent and supports him. Unable to cope with his lack of success, Yoshioka becomes dependent on alcohol and women, causing much grief to Michiru, but she never leaves his side.Yoshioka vows to change and immerses himself in writing, finally publishing a novel and receiving an award. Months pass and one day on the beautiful Ishigakijima island, a drunk Yoshioka visits a local bar and tells the proprietress, Megumi, the story of how he disappointed his wife and eventually lost her in an traffic accident. Seeing the extent of his grief, Megumi tells Yoshioka about the Ishigakijima legend about a special “fragrance satchel”. If you take the satchel with you and go to a particular lighthouse, you will be able to meet a person who has died one last time for a short duration, until the smell of the satchel fades away. She hands him this fragrance satchel.
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Minemura, who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, was unable to have an abortion, and she was fired. She leaves the hospital and opens a hidden obstetric and gynecological practice on a remote street. This place became a place for women who wanted to get medical help, secretly. One day, when Minemura finds out that the woman who came to him is a virgin, he feels lustful and eventually rapes her.
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
A couple arrive by boat to a small fishing village where women dive for seafood. He is returning from a trip and he brings his latest girlfriend, a former hostess, with him. This causes jealousy with a local diver, a woman he had relationship with before he left. Meanwhile the other female divers find ways to satisfy themselves after a hard days work.
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
A fantasy erotic work in which a woman who appears in an adult video actually appears in front of various people who watch the video and fulfills their desires. Omori stops by a video rental store on his way home from work and casually picks up a video in a black package. When he plays it at home, it's just boring. Disappointed, Omori tries to turn off the video, but a woman calls out to him from inside the TV, saying, "Don't turn it off. I love you."
For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
A veteran hitman who has failed his job and returns to his hometown of Okinawa to escape from the organization's pursuit. Decades later, in Okinawa, he meets his nephew, a beautiful young man. He falls in love with the young man, but eventually the organization follows him to Okinawa and starts closing in on them...
A day in the life of a taxi driver who has to deal with various fare dodgers, perverts and crazies.
Haruhiko, a painting student, is intertwined violently until the morning in an old Western-style building. Haruhiko, who works at a bar in Sanada where many gay men gather, continues this relationship sly, thinking that it is not something he can continue. At that time, Shingo comes to the store. Shingo always goes to a hill overlooking the city of Yokohama, where Haruhiko often goes to sketch. Feeling destined, Haruhiko gently put his hand on Shingo's hand.
The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.
On a rainy night, the lights in the windows of the apartment complex go out one by one. Chiaki Onda (Junko Miyashita) was waiting for her husband, Hajime (Akira Hanagami), who came home late tonight. Dinner is cold and the children are already asleep. A rift had already formed between Chiaki and Hajime, and sex was nothing more than a means of fulfilling Hajime's sexual desires, and there was no joy in it. An attraction to her classmate's driver awakens...
An older nightclub hostess has to choose between a relationship with her loser boyfriend who owes the yakuza money and a music producer who wants to make her a star.
Hazuki clips her nails every time it rains. She caressed 'her' with these fingers back then. Hazuki, an editor of a publishing company now, is attracted by Shiori, the head of planning. On a day when the two women soaked wet in the rain, they enter an motel for shelter and take a shower. There Hazuki sees the image of her lost "girlfriend" in Shiori and eventually they reach out to each other.
One evening, Princess Sakura is attacked by a man. At that time, the Princess could not see his face. and only sees a tattoo on his body. Because of that that night, Princess Sakura falls in love with the man. In order to find the man she gives up everything and gets the same identical tattoo. The princess then works as a prostitute. Meanwhile Gonsuke is the man who attacked Princess Sakura. He also stole a scroll and, because of that, he is chased by assassins.
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.