Todo Shunnosuke is a movie director who passed away thirty years ago. Just before his death, he told his wife about three short films which contained a secret. Years later, Todo's wife, who is on the verge of death, asked Madame Marmalade to solve the mystery. (2nd part of the 2-part Quiz movie : the audience gets to find out the answers to some questions asked in the "Question Version" film, and the people who got the answers right get their names placed in the film).

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.

某日，老铺鱼店美貌的女店员麻理的朋友奈奈子意外惨死，尸体上不仅有被鱼撕咬的皮肤上还布满了鱼鳞，然而，这谜一样的死亡，只是整部悲剧的序曲…

1934年2月，森田波子（常盘贵子 饰）随丈夫勇太郎（香川照之 饰）从日本小樽来到中国东北牡丹江经营酒厂，在波子昔日情人陆军中佐大杉宽治（布袋寅泰 饰）的关照下，森田夫妇的酒厂生意红火，蒸蒸日上。 外表柔弱实则坚强的波子对待感情热情奔放，经过长时间的相处，她和大杉的爱火重燃，而勇太郎只能采取默认的态度。不久，波子结识了关东军的情报员冰室启介（伊势谷友介 饰），又与其发展出一段感情。 转眼十年，太平洋战争接近尾声，日本军队在中国已疲于应付。森田酒厂毁于战火，波子在混乱中挤上前往哈尔滨的军列去寻找丈夫。一路磨难，从未停歇…… 本片根据なかにし礼同名小说改编，在中国拍摄期间曾遭遇非典，致使公映延期。