很久很久以前，人世间鬼怪横行，魑魅魍魉泛滥成灾。当时出现了一个最强的役小角，他降服了拥有强大实力的鬼神为自己所用，以铲除为非作歹的鬼怪。在役小角临死之际，他将鬼神封印，人世间绝少听闻鬼神的消息。时间来到了现代，役小角的后代小明（横山智佐 饰）在命运的驱使下解开封印，可是高傲的前鬼根本不服从小明的役使，于是这个女孩只得将其变成童子的模样。与此同时，凭依实大量出现，而许多可怕的敌人交替登场。人世间再度为难，小明能否继承祖先的遗志，和前鬼共同击退各路邪祟呢？
本片根据谷菊秀（原作）、黒岩よしひろ（作画）创作的漫画《鬼神童子ZENKI》改编。

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

1954年9月，一艘往来于青森和函馆的客轮在海上沉没，大批的乘客遇难。阿久津是青函隧道技术调查团的成员，正在津轻海峡进行调查，偶然地救了一个想自杀的女孩牧村多惠，并将他带到阿连经营的食品店工作。1956年，阿久津向上级汇报，认为青函隧道可以挖掘。第二年他被派往明石海峡调查，在故乡结婚生子。1964年，日本铁路公司成立，青函隧道开始动工，阿久津也来到青森。由于多惠的帮助，他招了一批立志为青函隧道献身的年轻人。施工后由于风大浪险的恶劣环境，两个月里工程只挖了五米。为完成父志，阿久津不顾风湿病折磨，始终战斗在施工现场。就在父亲病逝那天，隧道中发生冒顶事故，地下水汹涌而出。阿久津带着工人和技术人员奋力抢救，虽然不断有人负伤甚至牺牲但无人畏缩不前，终于制服了坑道渗水。日本最长的隧道完工了，阿久津在父亲的墓前献上了一束青森的草花。

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

2000 film directed by Shinji Aoyama

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

板仓亮子（宫本信子 饰）是港町税务署的调查员，她工作认真负责，但在收到一位老婆婆的指责后，她不再将目光停留在普通老百姓身上，而是转移到大的商会上面。在她锲而不舍的追查下，许多狡猾的公司老板纷纷现出原形。不过亮子也有为难的时候，经营旅馆业的权藤英树（山崎努 饰）就是一条狡猾的老狐狸，任凭亮子怎样调查也找不到蛛丝马迹。
不久后，亮子因工作出色被调到国税局侦查科，她和同事齐心协力侦破不少偷税案件。随着一同匿名举报电话的到来，权藤的案子再次提出，亮子决心将其偷税事实彻底查清……