Jadis, Katsuzo a été amoureux d'une prostituée avec laquelle il a eu une fille. Voulant fuir ensemble, ils furent rattraper par les yakuzas qui tuèrent devant lui sa compagne. Aujourd'hui, Katsuzo est un proxénète qui achète des jeunes filles pour les revendre au Yohkiro, la plus grande maison de geishas du sud du Japon. Mais de terribles drames se jouent au sein de ce royaume des plaisirs...
L'un des principaux documentaires sur un chapitre spécifique de l'histoire moderne du Japon, ce film sur le procès des militaristes japonais accusés de crimes de guerre est excellemment traité par le réalisateur Masaki Kobayashi.
L'histoire de trois amis, deux hommes et une femme, dans la colonie britannique juste avant la bataille de Hong Kong et leur survie durant l'occupation militaire de la ville.
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Major James Prentis (Alan Bates) is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal, where he eventually decides to publish his memoirs 20 years after the war. His son, John (Lambert Wilson), becomes increasingly alarmed with the enigmatic Dr. Quinn (Kenneth Haigh), the director of the institution, and concludes after reading his father's memoirs that Quinn is responsible for his father's mental decline.
Kiju Han, a journalist, must face his memories of Vietnam as he writes a series of articles on the subject for his local newspaper. The articles attract a fellow veteran, Chinsu Pyon, who begins randomly appearing in Han's life. The film, through a series of flashbacks, depicts both the events in Vietnam and their aftermath in the lives of these two soldiers.