November 25, 1970. The famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima got up early in the morning, put on his military uniform, and, along with fellow members of the Shield Society, went to the Self-Defense Forces ground forces base in Ichigaya to urge soldiers to stage a coup d'état. Along the way, Mishima recalls his life and its influence on his works.
Long ago, in distant Japan, feudal wars raged. A young, beautiful, and determined princess, heir to the ruling clan, and her loyal and resolute samurai were forced by fate to hide in the mountain wilderness, in a secret fortress unknown to anyone, from imminent destruction.
In order to reach safe territory, they came up with a plan: disguised as ordinary peasants, they would set off on a journey with a load of gold hidden in firewood.
They took two random vagabonds as their assistants, two scoundrels who, upon learning about the gold, could think of nothing else but gold.
Naples. Mimi grew up in an orphanage and works as a baker in a pizzeria. Since he was born with deformed feet, he is regularly bullied by the spoiled son of a local crime boss. Mimi's boring life changes overnight when he meets Carmilla, a girl who believes herself to be a descendant of Count Dracula himself.
Sam Lowry is quite content with his life. He works as a petty clerk and agrees to put up with an unsettled life against the will of his mother, who is a member of the system's elite. But suddenly he meets the girl he keeps seeing in his dreams. To meet her again, he decides to change jobs.
American Benny, thrown by God and fate into a rundown Mexican town, works as a tapper. All his problems can be solved by money, which he doesn't have. But one day he is offered a decent sum - 10 thousand dollars. For this he must only deliver to a large Mexican landowner the head of a certain Alfredo Garcia - a man from whom his daughter is pregnant.
France, 12th century. Belian, a young blacksmith, is forced to flee his homeland. He joins a group of crusaders led by his father. In one of the battles he is severely wounded and before his death he ordains his son a knight.
After a tremendous victory on the battlefield, lost in a dense forest, Lords Washizu and Miki meet a mysterious prophetic old woman who foretells a great future for Washizu, and an even greater one for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, they do indeed receive a summons and honorable appointments from the emperor. Wasizu, instigated by his ambitious wife, plans to go beyond the old sorceress' predictions.
