After the death of his grandfather, a young man receives a grotesque statue as his inheritance.
A man buries a plague stricken women. To assure that she is dead, he has attached a bell to her. So the question becomes, If the bell rings, should he dig her up or let her die at the insistence of his wife?
Tales include: The Hill of Old Age, which tells of a conspiracy hatched against Japan's unifier, Oda Nobunaga. Seeing the Truth, about the assassin sent to murder Nobunaga's successor leyasu Tokugawa.
This video depicts a character's struggle with the trappings of ideology.
