The Black Current

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.