1-2. Binzume no Jigoku (The Inferno in Bottles) 3. Sei Anthony no Yuukai (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) 4-5. Kogane-Mochi 6-7. Kawaisou na Ane (Poor Big Sister)

1-3) Lovers in Conflict Because of her sister who suddenly ran away, Sagiri ends up getting married in her place. Her husband is hard to understand and is a bit of an S. What will happen to their married lif...

Set in post-World War II Japan, this is a story of young Haruomi, an heir of the prominent Morimura family. Stripped of his aristocratic title while facing a repossession of his estate, Haruomi finds himself...

Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side....

"If there's such a thing as a soul, does it remain in this world as long as the bones exist? Will all of my sins and sorrows remain in this world forever?" Tokyo, 1952. A beautiful, mysterious woman who's h...

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For the sooty industrial town’s lads there’s only one point of light: The Light Club, a secret brotherhood they’ve organized in an abandoned factory. They’re on the verge of booting up their crowning...

"Lunatic Circus" is a story about the circus group, Lunatic Circus, which is said to be the best in Japan in post-war Japan, which has achieved rapid economic growth. The signboard star of this circus group...

It's the summer of 1967, where 11-year-old Ken'ichi discovers a magic mountain thanks to a salamander trapped in a museum.

In 1941, Soutarou Kuramoto returns to Japan after years abroad with something on his mind. His closest childhood friend was a boy named Haroumi Asuma, who was famous for his traditional dances in women's clo...

The story follows a series of bizarre murders of schoolgirls who have been dismembered and stuffed into boxes. Four people -- police detective Kiba, novelist Sekiguchi, used book store owner and onmyoudou pr...

A former mangaka falls into poverty after becoming disillusioned with life and abandoning his trade. He unsuccessfully attempts to start a business selling rocks by the riverside to feed his family.

Taking place during the turn from the Taisho to the Showa period, this story centers around an unsuccessful science fiction author who masquerades as the dead son of an industrial magnate. With his new famil...

After Itoi returns from his time abroad in England, he becomes an English teacher in a seaside town. One day, he meets Tezuka, the navy officer older brother of one of his students. Although Tezuka’s young...

Yukie grows up in the countryside in the 1930s as a daughter of a well-off family plagued with dark secrets. Surrounded by people but without any real friends, she tries to come to terms with herself and le...

12-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

Shuuichirou has been able to sense unworldly spirits for most of his life, and it has made him sensitive in his interactions with other people. When his adoptive mother passes away, Shuuichirou decides it's ...

A hapless young man is released from prison with nothing to his name, but he knows exactly what he wants: to train in the art of rakugo comedic storytelling. After seeing an unforgettable performance from on...

Takano Shoko is a beautiful girl born between a rebellious critic and a famous geisha in Yanagibashi. When her father disappeared, Shoko lost her mother in an air raid and became a vagrant child, becoming th...

Set in 1940, Yusaku runs a trading company in Kobe, Japan and he is married to Satoko. While on a business trip in Manchuria, Yusaku learns of a horrific national secret. For the sake of justice, he decides ...

The story is about conjoined twins, a boy and a girl, and how they - in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - come to live with a travelling freak show. -from Caterpillar

An anthology of six short stories: 1) The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003] Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter ...