After his wife's death, renowned saxophonist Akira (Masakazu Tamura) decides to give up music. When his wife was alive, he was intent on pursuing his dreams and had little time for family. Now he lives a quiet life, devoting his time to his daughter....
Tokyo in 1964. The Olympics are set to take place in Tokyo and the country has experienced a period of rapid economic growth. The inhabitants of Third Street live amidst all the change in their usual optimistic ways. Novelist Ryunosuke (Hidetaka Yosh...
Yuichi Shimizu (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a young man who takes care of his grandparents in a decaying fishing village in Nagasaki. His grandparents raised Yuichi instead of his mother. Yuichi now works as a civil employee. He is a lonely man.
One day, ...
At an all boys high school, Tadakuni (Masaki Suda), Yoshitake (Shuhei Nomura) and Hidenori (Ryo Yoshizawa) are close friends and think usually all day about girls. Their high school then co-hosts a school festival with an all girls high school.
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi (Keiko Kitagawa) works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto (Manatsu Kimura) also ha...
41-year-old Shizuru (Takako Tokiwa) lives with her mother and grandmother in a mountain village in Gifu Prefecture. Shizuru's grandmother is gentle, but is also partially disabled. Shizuru and her mother takes care of her grandmother. Meanw...
Takeshi Kamiya's (Masaki Okada) father Tsukasa (Takeshi Kaga) is a doctor at a major hospital. Takeshi also wants to become a doctor, but he keeps failing his medical school entrance exams. Takeshi becomes frustrated and leaves home. He begins to wor...
Mizuno Aiya (Nakamura Shido) is a mysterious master in love who has come hired as the manager of a convenice store. If the love doctrine he imparts is put into practice, a female’s heart will be won in no time. A man’s looks, wealth or ab...
The owner of a small clock store Morikazu (Jun Kunimura) finds his eyesight is faltering and ponders whether to close down his shop for good. A young woman named Ryo (Erika Sawajiri) walks into his store to repair an old watch. Several days later, Ry...
A year has passed since Mitsuo (Eita) filed divorce papers to end his marriage with Yuka (Machiko Ono), but they still live together. Mitsuo is now thinking about remarrying Yuka. On December 30, Mitsuo and Yuka go camping. Mitsuo works hard to...
Set after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Shiori (Asami Usuda) and Kenji (You Takahashi) are a married couple. They both work at a same small factory together and hope to have a baby in the near future. One day, due to co-worker Takumi's (Tak...
Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.
Ko-Teng has several close friends who had a crush on Shen Chia-Yi. Those friends of Ko's thus moved in unison from Ching Ch...
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives strongly.
A year has passed since Mitsuo (Eita) filed divorce papers to end his marriage with Yuka (Machiko Ono), but they still live together. Mitsuo is now thinking about remarrying Yuka. On December 30, Mitsuo and Yuka go camping. Mitsuo works hard to...
Ken Katakura (Naoto Takenaka) has worked as a salaryman for the past 25 years. He's on his way to Malaysia to stop his daughter's wedding. Unfortunately for Ken, the plane makes an emergency landing in a remote part of Malaysia, far from the capital ...
Kaede (Kurumi Shimizu) and Yusuke (Kento Yamazaki) have feelings for each other, but they do not express their feeling honestly. Ji-Ho (Hyomin), who is an exchange student from South Korea, gets to know Kaede and Yusuke while attending university. Ji...
Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.
Tomoko (Hikari Mitsushima) is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo (Kaoru Kobayashi), who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual rel...
Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke and they soon become a couple. Ryosuke is a good person, but he doesn't have a job. Every day he just loafs around.
To pay for her living expenses, ...
On Minamidaito Island there isn't a high school, consequently teenagers who turn 15-years-old leave the island to attend high schools. Yuna Nakazato (Ayaka Miyoshi) lives on Minamidaito Island with her father Toshiharu Nakazato (Kaoru Kobayashi). Yun...
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold at a high cost to develop new drug...
Shuichi (Tadayoshi Okura) had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi (Mirei Kiritani). They enjoy happy times to...
In Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahou, Nakama Yukie will become Makiko Norita, a consultant that will fix your problems and help clean up your life. Her personality is welcoming and warm, and is further accented by her upbeat catchphrase, "Anata no...
Matsushita plays Kiriyama Yuki, an assistant professor in forensic science at a university's faculty of medicine, who's great at finding the true cause of unnatural deaths. On the other hand, she has a reputation of being a weirdo with her messy ...
Reiji Matsushima (Takuya Kimura) is a genius physicist. He realizes that he and his fiancé Asahi Ando (Kou Shibasaki) will be killed a theory that he advanced.
One day, in the year 2013, Reiji dies in a airplane explosion & crash. He was...
In Kyushu, after the war in 1947, Kogure Ryoko (Matsuyuki Yasuko) works hard at a drinking hall for American troops. Her dream is to go to Tokyo and become a big actress. The turning point in her life comes when she meets limura (Sakaguchi Kenji) at ...
One evening, Princess Sakura (Kyoko Hinami) is attacked by a man. At that time, the Princess could not see his face. and only sees a tattoo on his body. Because of that that night, Princess Sakura falls in love with the man. In order to find the man ...
Yoko (Ryoko Hirosue) lost her young daughter Kanako through an accident and she grieves heavily. The guilt that Yoko feels drives her to commit suicide in her daughter's bedroom. Yoko is saved, but, since then, acts strange.
Meanwhile, her husband N...
Majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) has a talent to comprehend different languages and holds different views than others. He is the most important member of a dictionary edit team. Other word enthusiasts gather at the dictionary edit section for a publishing com...