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The main character of Graveyard of Honor was Rikio Ishikawa (1926-1956), who received his sakazuki (family bond) from Kaoru WADA, the chief of the Wada-gumi, in 1942. Ishikawa soon took charge of the black market in the South Exit area of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. In an attempt to deal with complaints from one of his men, in 1946, he tried to negotiate with Wada but was instead ordered to sever his pinkie. Later that year, he severely injured Wada with a short sword, and the Boss took a month to recover from the attack. Ishikawa was imprisoned for eighteen months due to the attack, and upon his release, he was ordered to stay away from the Kanto Plain region (Tokyo area) for ten years.

Ishikawa moved to Osaka, but he returned to Tokyo in 1949 (well in advance of his 10-year ban) and shot fellow Yakuza Kouzaburo IMAI. Upon Ishikawa's surrender, he was sentenced to ten years in Fuchu Prison in Tokyo. On February 2, 1956, he committed suicide by jumping from the roof of Fuchu Prison. In his prison cell was his final corrspondence: a poem reading "Oowarai sanjyunen no bakasawagi" (It is so funny, my life of 30 years was a crazy party).

For his rebellion against Yakuza honor, Rikio Ishikawa became a legend in the Yakuza world.

Two Japanese action film stars face off for the first and only time! Over the years, action stars Yasuaki Kurata and J.J Sonny Chiba have built a friendship and a rivalry. With one in Hollywood and the other in Hong Kong, they were destined never to engage in onscreen battle... But now, through fate, this powerful duo has united to bring forth young actors specially trained by Kurata in the hopes of giving birth to a new star worthy of the spirit of Japanese action movies. Director Kenji Tanigaki, who dreamed of becoming an action star like Jackie Chan, has gained experience as a stuntman handling numerous stunt coordinating and action direction for Hong Kong films. Now he has made his first Japanese action movie and brought Yasuaki Kurata and J.J Sonny Chiba together at last!

Makoto Konno, a pretty and precocious high-schooler, has two guy best friends in her class. One of them is her childhood friend Kosuke Tsuda and the other is Chiaki Mamiya. After school, Makoto would much rather play baseball with her guy friends than hang out with the girls from her class. It isn't like Makoto is dating either boy; the three of them share a casual and easygoing friendship. Makoto values their kind and innocent bond, especially since they are all about to become high school seniors and will have to make serious decisions about their lives. But change is about to come for Makoto, sooner than she thinks... After a mysterious incident in the school chemistry lab, Makoto finds herself with the gift to slip back into time. Makoto can retrace her steps to yesterday, or last week -and she can change things at will. She can choose to re-indulge in a great meal, or fix an annoying problem with one little tweak of the past. But once Makoto gets a handle on her ability, she finds herself consumed with her new power. Is she putting her friendships with Kosuke and Chiaki at risk? Can their fragile bond survive Makoto's leaping through time?

The story begins in a beautiful seaside town in Shima Peninsula, Japan. Toru Aizawa (Ryo Tomioka), 11 years old, has recently lost his mother in a car accident. He has been melancholy and distant ever since. Then Toru finds a tiny egg on a mysterious red stone. Toru takes the egg in his hand and it cracks. The egg hatches and surprisingly, a cute little turtle pops out. Toru names the turtle "Toto" and decides to raise him. Perhaps Toru's new pet will help to take his mind off the sorrow of his lost mother. Toru's father Kosuke (Kanji Tsuda) runs a local diner and they live in the fairly modest apartment above. Despite this, Toru decides to try to keep Toto a secret. Then strange things begin to happen with the little turtle. Toto grows rapidly, begins to fly in the air, and even blows fireballs! Even with his curious habits, Toto is the perfect pet and friend for Toru. Toru's friend Mai (Kaho) sees Toto and becomes suspicious, because Toto bears a striking resemblance to the giant monster Gamera! Mai recalls that Gamera appeared 33 years ago, and ultimately died defending humans from the horrible attacks of evil monsters. Toru refuses to believe that his little Toto might actually be the giant monster called Gamera! Mai has a more pressing problem. She is going to have a heart operation at a hospital in the nearby city of Nagoya. Concerned, Toru gives Mai the red stone on which Toto's egg was laid as a lucky charm. In the meantime, there has been a series of mysterious shipwrecks... followed by the sudden disappearance of Toto! Toru looks everywhere for Toto, but is unsuccessful. The dreamlike, fun-filled days with Toto, Toru and the kids are gone. But the loss of Toto is momentarily forgotten when Zedus, a gigantic monster lizard, attacks! He begins to wreck Toru's peaceful seaside town, demolishing buildings with every step! Toru tries to escape with his father but his path is halted by Zedus's rampage! Then something stops Zedus's advance... Toru turns to see a 5-meter-tall turtle... It's Toto! However, Toto is still too small to fight against the ferocious Zedus. Toto manages to drive Zedus back into the ocean. Toru is proud, but Toto has used up all his energy _ poor Toto collapses! The government forces sweep in. Councilor Hitotsugi (Tomorowo Taguchi) and Professor Amamiya (Kenjiror Ishimaru) lead a team that captures Toto. Their plan: to use Toto to mastermind attacks against Zedus and save the town. Toru receives a phone call from Mai's parents. Her operation was successful. Toru goes to Mai's hospital in Nagoya to retrieve the mysterious red stone. Whatever the red stone is, Toto knows he needs its special power to help Toto recover. And only Toto can stop Zedus from attacking again!

Emily KUSAMA (Meisa KUROKI), an 11th grader at Anjo High School, is going on a class trip to Korea. She's looking forward to seeing her friends, including a Korean guy named An JINU (JANG Gun-Suk), whom she befriended through her involvement with the Japan-Korean Sign Language Association. On the other hand, she's sad that her childhood buddy, Asuka MATSUDA (Maki HORIKITA) has opted not to go with them to Korea, because she's being bullied by her classmates. While on the trip, one of the students receives a photo message that arrives with a strangely familiar ringtone. The message is date-stamped in the future. The accompanying picture shows the student's own death... by strangulation. Sure enough, that student dies at the exact time stamped on the photo message. One by one, the students are haunted by spooky photo messages that predict their deaths. Then, just as predicted, they each meet a deadly fate. Why is this happening? Who _ or what _ is responsible? Suspicion runs rampant within the group. Infighting and betrayals rage among the students. Emily, however, stays out of the fight and focuses on her own hunch. Emily's suspicious are proven correct when she discovers that the messages are coming from Japan... from her bullied friend, Asuka. It appears that there's only one way to avoid the death that accompanies the lethal photo message and its sinister ringtone: forward it along to someone else before you die.

Takumi Harada (Kento Hayashi) moves to Okayama Prefecture with his family during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as pitcher, but socially he is a loner and appears unapproachable to others. His family consists of his constitutionally weak younger brother Seiha (Akihiro Yarita); his mother Makiko (Yuki Amami) who is so protective of Seiha that she cannot help acting coldly to Takumi; and his grandfather Yozo who was once a famous high school baseball coach who lead his team to the national high school baseball convention at Koshien Stadium. Even his warm, caring family is not sure at times how to deal with the solitary side of Takumi. Takumi meets a new classmate Goh Nagakura (Kenta Yamada). Goh is captivated by Takumi's pitching and is eager to pair up with him as his catcher. The two join the Nitta East Junior High School baseball team, only to discover that baseball there is under the "complete control" of a dictator-like coach. Unwilling to compromise his beliefs, Takumi defies and clashes with the coach. His classmate Mayu Yajima is gradually attracted to Takumi's relentlessness. Takumi and Goh seem to beg doing very well together, until the disparity of their skills start to come between them. Eventually, Goh brings up dissolving their duo and Takumi accepts. Seiha desperately tries to bring the two back together. "You gotta pitch!" The two rejoin again, but just at that moment, Seiha falls ill. Takumi's mother pushes him away claiming that involving Seiha with baseball was the cause of his illness. However, the father Hiroshi suggests that perhaps Takumi had continued to play baseball to avoid worrying about his weak younger brother and to divert his mind from the loneliness of not getting attention from his parents. Finally, with his own life is in danger, Seiha asks Takumi right before the big game, "Make sure you win...okay Takumi?" With Seiha's words marked in his heart, Takumi heads toward the baseball field.

A dead patriarch's fortune and strangely written will lead to scandalous family murders. And a brilliant detective uncovers a web of love and hatred, ultimately leading to a frightening truth... Sahei Inugami (played by Tatsuya Nakadai), once "Japan's pharmaceutical king," is the founder of the Inugami conglomerate. Sahei passes away, leaving a massive fortune and a large family. His complex lineage includes three daughters, each born of different mothers. The daughters are Matsuko (Junko Fuji), Takeko (Keiko Matsuzaka) and Umeko (Hisako Manda). Each daughter has a son: Sukekiyo (Kikunosuke Onoe), Suketake (Shingo Katsurayama) and Suketomo (Mansaku Ikeuchi). Living with the whole family in Sahei's mansion is the beautiful Tamayo Nonomiya (Nanako Matsushima). She is the granddaughter of a man who helped Sahei build his wealth, a man to whom Sahei owed all to... Wakabayashi, executer of the will, foresees the deadly conflicts between the family members and asks the detective Kosuke Kindaichi (Koji Ishizaka) for help. Before Kindaichi can meet him, Wakabayashi is killed. The will is read to the family. All are shocked. "Tamayo will inherit the entire fortune on condition that she marry one of my grandchildren: Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo." Sahei's demands start a bloody battle, pitting each relative against the other. As Wakabayashi feared, family members befall grizzly murders as everyone struggles for the fortune now resting with Tamayo. The detective Kosuke Kindaichi investigates the murders, finding deeply buried secrets behind the family's lineage. Ultimately, Kosuke discovers an unimaginable Inugami secret!

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. "Remember I kissed you, saying I'll marry you when we're grown ups?" He feels embarrassed around Kazumi, who talks about their early childhood stories without any reserve. Kazumi has a boyfriend named Hiroshi Yamamoto. Kazuo is annoyed with Hiroshi's attitude, but with Kazumi, they naturally start to get comfortable with each other again just like old times. Kazumi's family runs a long-standing soba noodle restaurant. Her very lively, Japanese family consists of her parents, her grandfather, and a very young niece. She has one older brother who lives away in Tokyo. One day, Kazumi invites Kazuo to her house. After talking about old times, they walk to a place from their childhood called the "Lonely Watering Place". "Kazuo, the water here is very good. That's why our soba noodles also taste so good." Kazuni tries to scoop up some water with a dipper and the two accidentally fall into the water. They quickly crawl out, but suddenly realize that they have switched bodies! (In the following, Kazuo's mind inside Kazumi's body will be referred to as "KAZUO", and Kazumi's mind inside Kazuo's body will be referred to as "KAZUMI".) They go home, to the others family, who know nothing about the switch, but they seem rattled. Upset with the whole situation, the two both leave their homes. KAZUO says to sobbing KAZUMI, "For today, I'll have to play you and you'll have to play me."

Minako is working abroad as a pinhole photographer when she learns from her doctor that she's going to lose her sight. Minako decides to return to her hometown, Toyohashi, so she can see her childhood home one last time. Minako still carries the old-fashioned pinhole camera, which once belonged to her brother. As she is photographing the city, Minako meets a couple of high school students, YUKIHIKO and SAEKO. They are in the midst of preparing an event that will revive the traditional "Eejanaika Dance," which originated in Toyohashi. Minako begins to tell them about her childhood... In 1943, Minako, 6, and her brother SHINJI, 12, move from Tokyo to Toyohashi. At first, Shinji is treated as an outsider by his classmates, but as time goes on he is gradually accepted and becomes the leader of his class. As WWII wages on and the fighting becomes fiercer, Shinji's teacher and his classmates' fathers are sent off to war one after the other. When Shinji enters junior high, his class is ordered to start working in a naval yard based in Toyokawa instead of attending school. August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The very next day, during one of the many air raids, the factory Shinji has been working in is hit. Shinji is killed, along with many of his classmates. Their young lives have been stolen from them. As they listen to Minako's story, Yukihiko and Saeko consider the preciousness of friendship, family and peace. Their re-examination of their lives helps them find a new meaning in the dance revival and gives them greater determination to make the event successful.