Kina, år 208. Han-dynastin går mot sitt slut. Premiärminister Cao Caos gigantiska armé på 800 000 soldater och 2000 krigsfartyg har nått fram till det avgörande slaget vid "De röda klipporna". Men ingen vet vilken fiende som väntar...
Varje samuraj har en herre som han är totalt lojal emot. I Ghost Dogs fall är det Louie, en underhuggare i den italienska maffian som en gång räddat livet på honom. Sedan dess har Ghost Dog utfört ett antal framgångsrika torpedjobb åt Louie. De ses dock aldrig utan håller kontakt genom brevduvor. Ingen vet något om Ghost Dog eller hur han utför sina uppdrag. Han har fått sitt namn efter sin förmåga att komma och gå utan att lämna några spår. När något går fel i ett jobb får han sin herre efter sig och hans enda utväg är att döda hela maffiafamiljen.
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.