A.k.a. "A Hardest Night," a classy Japanese comedy set in the world of Rakugo (traditional Japanese comic storytelling) - or at least, it would be if it weren't full of unbelievably raunchy jokes and stories! A dying patriarch's misunderstood final wish sets in motion a torrent of hysterical reminiscences as the remaining family members and apprentices celebrate the lives of the dead in a series of wakeful nights.

One night, Kazuyoshi Tamai sees several young men getting beaten up on the street. When he finds out Takeshi Hamada was the ring leader behind the beatings, he hopes to challenge him. But he's just missed Takeshi, who ran off looking for Kazuyoshi. Years later, Kazuyoshi has become Japan's bantamweight boxing champ, while Takeshi is the toast of the pro wrestling world. The two brawlers are about to meet at last in the match of their lives!

Agent 999 is sent to a rural Chinese village to arrest a bandit called "Rolex," who sports a tattoo of a fist on his chest. Upon arriving, Agent 999 begins to suspect that something is wrong, and it soon transpires that cannibals, addicted to the flesh of strangers, populate the village. Agent 999 and an unlikely bunch of good guys decide that they must overthrow the evil chief of the village and escape.

Seung-Hui (Kim Rae-Won) was a successful young movie director, but after the death of his fiancee, he fell apart. Just when his life hits rock bottom, the clumsy and opinionated country girl Bok-Shil (Jung Ryu-Wong) enters his life and shows Seung-Hui just how wonderful life can be. But to start anew, he must face his most difficult trial of all...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is the story of Keiko (Takamine Hideko), a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly and resourceful but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society.

When Hiroki's boss goes missing, it's up to him and the boss' daughter Rie to figure out what's happened. A story of police corruption and yakuza intrigue with a sub plot of romance between Hiroki and Rie, Director Shinji Aoyama pulls out all the cinematic stops.

Enlisting the help of the (real-life) Japanese rock/punk band Guitar Wolf (and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world), Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts, transsexuals, naked women shooting guns in the shower and blood-thirsty zombies ready to tear them apart!

Spectacular aerial photography highlight this program with scenes shot from within the cockpit of the Japan Self Defense Force's mainline fighter jets. Supersonic predators such as the F-15, F-2, E-2C, RF-4E roam the sky in this 2nd in a series of programs from director Kenji Kodama, the only civilian in Japan allowed to film inside the cockpits of Japan's Challengers.

Emblazoned with a Cobra on their tail wings, 7 F-15DJ "Aggressor" attack jets make a grand appearance. These are the planes of the Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF), the supersonic hunters that defend Japan. Watch as the Japanese make F-1 cuts across the sky, see the B-747-400, also known as the Japanese "Air Force One," and feel the adrenaline rush from the various planes of the JSDF.

Appearing for the first time in this program is Japan's premier defender of the skies, the F-15J/DJ Eagle, along with the F-4EJ Phantom II's and the first fighter produced by Japan after WWII, the F-1. Also appearing on this program is Japan's latest experimental advanced fighter, the XF-2A/B and one of its oldest, the F-104J Starfighter, the first supersonic plane purchased by Japan.

In 1991, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Swiss Surveillance Command, the largest airshow in Swiss history was held at Pairen Air Base. Because of Swiss neutrality, staging an airshow had been very difficult as most foreign flying teams were not allowed in. However, within the last decade those restrictions have been relaxed.

Laraine Day plays housewife Jane Bandle, who is stuck in a loveless marriage and having an affair with Dennis Williams (Franchot Tone). When a private detective finds out about their affair, Dennis breaks up with Jane. Jane grows hysterical and accidentally stabs him with an ice pick. When her brother-in-law (Dane Clark) finds out what she did, he blackmails her. But to everyone's surprise Jane's lover is not dead.