Paul Conroy erwacht aus einer Bewusstlosigkeit und findet sich in einem Sarg begraben wieder. Das Letzte, an das er sich erinnert: Er war als LKW-Fahrer im Irak unterwegs um Hilfsgüter auszuliefern. Mit einem Handy und einem Feuerzeug ausgestattet bleiben ihm nun nur 90 Minuten, um den Wünschen seiner Entführer zu entsprechen und das Lösegeld für ihn rechtzeitig besorgen zu lassen.
Ein zutiefst religiöser Ex-Gefängnisinsasse (Samuel L. Jackson) stoppt den Selbstmordversuch eines College-Professors (Tommy Lee Jones). Nachdem er diesen davon abgehalten hat, sich vor die U-Bahn zu werfen, ziehen sie sich in ein New Yorker Apprtement zurück, wo ein philosophischer Diskurs entbrennt…
Der Meisterdieb und Ex-Elitesoldat Jack Tolliver organisiert den Überfall auf einen Geldtransporter. Alles läuft zunächst nach Plan, aber plötzlich wird er selbst überfallen und alle seine Komplizen werden getötet. Von der Polizei verfolgt, macht sich Jack auf die Suche nach seinen Widersachern.
The capitalist Morita dreamed of making a full-dress private SM film and asked a SM writer Goro for advice. A lovely university girl was introduced to Morita by the degraded film director Yoshimoto. Orie's family had a lot of debt and was desperately in need of cash. Morita selected his basement room as a shooting studio. This was not what Orie had agreed to and she tried to resist but she was tied up naked and confined with her counterpart university boy in the cage. Orie was forced to give up human pride and become an animal. Morita and others continued to watch through the video camera from a different room. And the bizarre SM film shooting started...
A wealthy property developer goes to the top floor of an art gallery to pay the ransom for his kidnapped son. But when the lift mysteriously stops halfway up the building, he must quickly work out if the young man he is trapped with is just an innocent tourist – or the kidnapper...
Two women are abducted by a serial killer in a van and must work together to escape before it's too late.
"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.
The story about a Japanese lady that gets abducted on her way back to her apartment, and endures hours of rape and mind-fiuck games at the hands of some of Emperor Hirohito's cruelest motherfuckers. And, it being Japanese, of course the heroine comes to be defined by this horrifying event.