When things begins to heat up between a bathhouse attendant, Elizabeth, and a greenhorn comedian, Shingyo, he meets someone else. Characters come and go. Sketch comedy ensues. …

Insurance adjuster Keibu Wakatsuki receives an anonymous phone call from a woman who wants to know if his Showa Corporation will pay out on a policy if the holder suicides. Soon he’s sent to the home of Shigenori Komoda, a thumbless man whose missing digit the adjuster’s company thinks may not be accidental. There, Wakatsuki finds the body of Komoda’s young stepson dangling from a rope tied to a ceiling beam. …

City Heat (Richard Benjamin