Ryoko is a high school girl who attends a prestigious private high school in Tokyo. However, her grades are steadily declining. Her day begins with an encounter on the train to school. It is not just the man that keeps Ryoko from studying. Ryoko's sister and her husband, Shunichi, are impotent, which makes her sister Misako sexually frustrated, and the consequences of this fall on Ryoko. The only thing that helps her relieve such stress is the man's fingers on the train to school.
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a dark side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter.
Ji-seon is living with her sister and her husband after a divorce. Her sister Ji-yeong leaves for a work trip and Ji-seon is at home all alone with her brother-in-law.
Won-jin is unemployed and spends most of his time pleasuring himself and dreaming after Seon-mi. One day, his father brings home a very young wife who will be Won-jin's step-mother, and he hopes she'll be the woman of his dreams.
Teenager, Clare Steves, is kidnapped by an old boyfriend, Eddie Spencer, who demands $250,000. The ransom is paid and Clare is released, but when the kidnapers are caught, they claim that the whole scheme was Clare's idea as a way to punish her father.
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.