Volume 1, Chousou (鳥葬): 
1. Sky Burial (鳥葬) 
2. Rash (じんましん) 
3. Shiiku (飼育) 
4. Forked Road (わかれみち) 
5. Beloved Monkey (いとしのモンキー) 
6. Mittsuko no Shoutoku Taishi (三つ子の聖徳太子) 
7. Just a Man (男一発) 
8. Eel (うなぎ) 
9. Hotarubi (蛍火) 
10. Good-bye (グッドバイ) 
11. Sheets wo Shiku Onna (シーツを敷く女) 

Volume 2, Cup no Naka no Taiyou (コップの中の太陽): 
1. Cup no Naka no Taiyou (コップの中の太陽) 
2. Buttsuke Taiyou (ぶっつけ太陽) 
3. Michikusa Onna (みちくさ女) 
4. Hana Ijime (花いじめ) 
5. Chiisa na Kokyou (ちいさな故郷) 
6. Kawaita Hana (乾いた花) 
7. Ueno Asakusa Yukidomari (上野・浅草ゆきどまり) 
8. Hatajuku Aoyama Tooriame (原宿・青山・通り雨) 
9. Nakibukuro (泣きぶくろ) 
10. The Dawn of Porn (夜明けのポルノ) 
11. Kita no Yado (北の宿) 
12. Midnight Fishermen (真夜中の吊り飾り) 
13. Otoko wo Kau (男を飼う) 
14. Shinjuku Urami Uta (新宿うらみ唄) 
15. Zenbu Miraremasu (ぜんぶ見られます)

Ken drinks too much at his friend Yoshio's bar, so he is put to sleep upstairs. He reminisces on his childhood, including a traumatizing experience where he walked in on Yoshio's mother having sex.
 
(Source: Wikipedia)

Nogawa suspects that he is being followed by vultures. Scared, he secludes himself, dropping out of college and breaking up with his girlfriend. When it is discovered that his neighbor had been dead for three months, his friend and other neighbors move out. However, with nowhere to go, Nogawa stays as the building succumbs to nature and a group of vultures roost on the roof.
 
(Source: Wikipedia)

Midnight Fishermen is about two young men who plans to
escape to rural northern Japan from the bottom of a large city
where garbage sucks garbage. Is the hustle and bustle of a big
city the only place for young people?

Around 1973, Japan became economically wealthy and bred an affluent society. High-rise conodominiums were built here and there.  Dawn of Porn points out that this standard of living was unreachable for ordinary people who stayed in small apartments with no bathrooms.

A sixty-year old retired salaryman lives alone in a hut alongside a river. He develops a recurring rash which he discovers to be psychosomatic. One day he discovers a woman who had tried to commit suicide and she stays with him to cook. The man learns how to control the rash as well as his erection. Feeling reinvigorated, he leaves a phallic mushroom in the woman's bed at night.
 
(Source: Wikipedia)

A factory worker, who keeps a pet monkey, is forced off a packed train at the wrong stop. He visits the Ueno Zoo, where the monkeys get agitated at him. One day, in a fit of anger, he writes a resignation letter.

A sewer cleaner's wife has a miscarriage. Discontent, his wife leaves him to return to work as a hostess. He takes a pair of eels from the sewer, grilling and eating one of them, but releases the other back into the sewer.

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