Kiyoshi Takase

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.