Rosaria Parondi, a widow, and her four sons decide to move from a poverty-stricken Sicilian village to Milan, where their fifth son lives. In search of a better life and a decent income, the brothers are willing to take on any job. Gradually, each one finds his place. But the once-close-knit family begins to fall apart with the arrival of a young woman named Nadia.

The final years of the Sui Empire. Dao Ma, a bounty hunter on the run from the law who is traveling with a small child, decides to flee the village that has taken him in. The leader of one of the five desert clans asks him to deliver the country’s most wanted criminal—the leader of the rebels—to Chang’an. Accompanied by a female warrior and the village headman’s daughter, who dreams of seeing the capital, Dao Ma sets out on his journey, while mercenaries of all kinds begin hunting down the child in his care.

After killing a boar, the young prince Ashitaka brought a deadly curse upon himself. An old shamaness predicted that only he himself could change his fate, and the brave warrior set out on a perilous journey. That is how he found himself in a mysterious land where people, led by the evil Lady Eboshi, were at war with the inhabitants of the forest: spirits, demons, and giant creatures the likes of which Ashitaka had never seen before. And with them was Princess Mononoke—the ruler of the beasts and the daughter of a she-wolf. Now everyone’s fate depends on just one warrior—Prince Ashitaka.

The film depicts the harsh daily life of Mr. Ogata, a low-budget porn producer and, at times, a pimp. Ogata has plenty on his plate: finding equipment, casting performers, dodging the police, the yakuza, and public opinion—all while supporting a half-mad widow and her grown children, who are, to top it all off, quite selfish and greedy. Ogata lives by his own philosophy and sees nothing shameful in his work.