Nagisa Katahira

Intrigue ensues when a samurai embarks on a perilous journey to resolve a deadly power struggle within a feudal lord's domain.

Haunted ex-spy Onijuro flees along the Nikko road, joining rogue monks in a post-town clash while relentless bounty hunters close in.

A neuron scientist and her husband discover a black-and-white 16mm film in the basement of a dilapidated hospital. The film documents underground experiments on a part of the human brain called the sylvian fissure in an attempt to gain insight into the “forbidden territory” – an invisible reality achieved through neither life nor death. Obsessed with this surreal concept, the surgeon tries to reconstruct what she saw by recreating the experiment...starting with her own daughters!

Princess Hiroko vanishes after escaping marriage and disguises herself as a man while Shusui and allies battle ninjas to uncover her whereabouts.