Edo period, a young draftsman, Sutehachi, arrives at Katsuhika Hokusai's house, the genius of the print and his daughter O-ei. If the boy's passion for drawing does not give way to that of the master, haunted just like him by the passion of the print, he is also very attracted by the world of pleasures.

Set in a small club called "Utopia" in Ginza, this is a Ginza midnight story about a group of charming people including the owner, Aya-mama, Chii-mama, Chigako, Susie and Haruka hostess, and Gin-san, a doorman with 30 years of experience in Ginza.

Japan in the sixties, Sumire, a twenty-year-old woman, works as a saleswoman in a department store. She refuses to depend on a man to live and sees her own body as a weapon to create herself a place in society. A contract to guarantee her freedom, to fight against this machismo that hinders women. But can one protect oneself from human nature and one's own feelings?

Rintaro Hibiki, the assistant director of the pink film, is seduced by the various women he meets in the "golden district", that is, the golden district... A beautiful girl who looks like a famous actress of the silent film era in her youth, the queen of a secret club where big names in the political and business world go to every night... A series of works depicting the world on the silver screen based on the original works by film director Suzuki Norifumi.

Sachiko is a prostitute living a bright and strong life of adolescence, set in the old red line of Shinjuku 2-chome. *"I don't know the pleasure of sexuality that makes me drown, but the men who have passed by my body make a joyful voice."*

Japan, mid-30s... A young prostitute falls in love with a restaurant owner, spending endless nights of love with him - until she finally strangles him in his sleep. Not out of anger or jealousy, but out of deep affection. She emasculated him after his death and is caught by the police days later, still carrying his genitals in her handbag...

The story of a girl who dreams of becoming Japan's biggest star. Willing to do everything to achieve her goal, even to devour anyone who stands in front of her.

Japan in the time of the Meiji dynasty is a country in transition, torn and dominated by exploitation and moral decline. Lady Snowblood want's to leave her bloody past behind her and is working under the name Kashima Yuki in a girl's grammar school where she teaches Swedish gymnastics... but conservative political forces are like a thorn in their side, and Yuki must again take up arms to keep the promise she gave to her life-saver. (Source: Carlsen Manga) Originally serialised in 1973, but not collected into book form until 2006.

Yuko, known as "Mama", is only 25 years old. She ties her hair to look older and more credible in her role as a hostess bar owner in Ginza, a suburb of Tokyo. Despite her youth, she has been divorced for two years and has a baby girl, Asako, whom she has placed with her mother in the countryside. Regularly harassed by her ex-husband, she must also manage the excesses of her employees, the indelicacy of the customers, her attraction to Ken-Chan, her bartender, and financial problems at the dawn of a major economic crisis.

Japan, Showa era… times are tough, especially in the region which has been surrounded by the river Shinano for hundreds of years. Ice-cold winter, failed harvest and hungry wolves give its residents a hard time. Young girls are amongst the first victims of this crisis-ridden time - their fate is often already decided: it’s either the brothel or the factory. Under these hard circumstances, the young and beautiful Takano Yukie tries to find her own way in life; and while doing so, she will challenge the moral conventions of the time. Shinanogawa, written by the novelist Okazaki Hideo, tells the wild and enthralling tale of a young woman searching for herself through dramatic and beguilingly sensual images illustrated by Kamimura Kazuo (of *Lady Snowblood* fame). (source: German publisher, translated) *Note: The original tankoubon volume released in 1973 by Shonengahosha only included the first 13 chapters. The full series was collected into three volumes by K&B Publishers in 2005.*

A woman and a man stop and stare at each other in a crowd of people coming and going. In the hot air, they find each other in the pack, even though it's been eight years... A sad story of a man and a woman is being told somewhere in the city today. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated) Included One-shots: Obasan wa Lesbian Shirauo no Kawa

Mu, an alien, just moved into the apartment next door, 60 centimetres away from the room of Ken-chan, an unsuccessful graphic artist, at the Venus Manor. The man is driven mad by her mysterious charm. Soon, Mu starts to work at a cabaret, Ken and the people around him get caught up in an unusual commotion due to Mu's free-spirited and mysterious charm.