Ekusute begins in bloody, unsettling fashion with the discovery of the body of a young girl, whose organs have been harvested and hair shaven to make extensions. The corpse ends up in the hands of morgue watchman and hair fetishist Yamazaki (Osugi Ren), who excitedly discovers that the girl's hair is still growing. He uses her long and silky hair to make extensions, which he sells to customers who invariably turn up dead, strangled by their own hair. When Yamazaki meets flighty aspiring hairstylist Yuko (Kuriyama Chiaki), he immediately becomes mesmerized by her beautiful hair, and presents her with a gift of hair extensions.

Mayu the teen girl hasn't opened her heart to anyone since ten years ago when some terrible case happened. Instead of going to high school, she goes to the church every day and looks for redemption. One day, she disappears in the woods, silently and suddenly. On the other side, Mana lives with her husband and her seven-year-old daughter in happiness. However, an unexpected occurrence happens and tears their happiness apart. Her little girl Sakura plays in the woods and goes missing. Mana loses her mind because of sadness. What is there inside the woods?

Dev, a youngster from a well-to-do family, is an adventure seeker. When his friend playfully tries to set him up with Meghna, a businesswoman who has no time for love, Dev has to embark on an adventure of another kind.

Shi Hyun, a part-time worker at a convenience store, lost all her memory after a car accident and now has synesthesia (the colored hearing syndrome in which she can see sounds in colors). With the help of an internet broadcasting producer, the girl embarks on a trip in order to find a melody that she only listened to in her dreams. As the song nears completion, Shi Hyun's fragmented memories return to her.

A woman suddenly appears at Jae-su's house. Nothing in her hands, nowhere to go, the woman's empty eyes meet with round eyes of the eleven year-old boy. He regards the woman as another person who'll leave and does not put any effort into getting to know her. Every chance he finds, the boy scolds the woman, saying she eats too much, sleeps like a pig and uses up all of the utilities. The two of them are neck and neck with complaints until she learns of the boy's sad history and he discovers her diabetes. The boy has already had 10 stepmothers in the past. Out of the blue the boy's father shows up and begins beating the boy. She tries to stop him and they find themselves on common ground. A warm relationship between the two begins to build up slowly, not aware of the eventual separation that is just around the corner.

A series of mysterious murders happened in a haunted barber house. Was it really supernatural forces or was it actually people behind the murders?

5 people, whose identities are unknown to each other, gather for a one time robbery job. They head to a motel, where a yakuza gang use to launder money. The group succeed in their heist and prepare to go back to their normal lives, but the yakuza are following them.

Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there’s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they’re all girls! After being humiliated by their leader, the pretty Misaki Shizuka, he vows revenge and when he gets it starts a lengthy battle between the sexes at the school…