The film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.

An unsatisfied married woman reconnects with a friend who has been engaging in peculiar sexual practices with her own artist husband.

Bored with the idea doing a documentary about school life for the upcoming cultural festival three students in the film club decide to make their own movie. But because they want to do a blue movie they discover that finding a leading lady is not so easy.

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.

A woman ends up in prison because of her lying, manipulative and exploitative lover. There she discovers that she is not alone.

A young couple with artistic tendencies spends their time around a bar in central Shinjuku, trying to figure out their relationship and life aspirations.

A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.

Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...