The drama is based on the best-selling serial novels by Nonami Asa, about the lives of two ex-convicts after their release from jail. Komoriya Hako took the rap for her first love, and was sent to jail for seven years. Eguchi Ayaka was serving time f...
In the summer of 1964 two arson cases occur in succession in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics are soon to begin the city. The first arson case took place at the residence of Shuuichiro Suga (Ittoku Kishibe). Shuuichiro Suga heads the security staff for the ...
Chyoko (Machiko Ono) is the daughter of Tanekichi (Shohei Hino) and Otatsu (Toshie Negishi), who are poor. Her parents run a fried dishes shop, but are harassed by moneylenders everyday. Chyoko is bright, but hates being poor. One day, Chyoko begins ...
Akiko (Satomi Kobayashi) lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant there's only two items on the menu: sandwich and soup.
Dr. Kaede Kojima (Nanako Matsushima) is now the staff leader at Minato University Hospital's Emergency and Critical Care Center. It's been a month since she took that position. She's calm and precise in her role as staff leader, but she doesn't let o...
A thief who calls himself the "Blue Oracle," breaks into a jewelry store run by Fumino Daidoji (Naomi Akimoto) and steals more than 60 million yen worth of diamonds. The thief had warned that the heist would take place, but the police thought it was ...
Sakura (Ryoko Shinohara) is a single 39-year-old woman. She works at a beauty salon as its vice manager. Sakura makes customers pretty, but she isn't interested in making herself pretty. She envies falling in love, but at the same time is afraid of f...
Set in present day Japan in a provincial town, Bunzo Kurosawa, a greedy and violent father, is murdered in his own home. Bunzo has 3 sons: oldest son Mitsuru (Takumi Saito), second son Isao (Hayato Ichihara) and youngest son Ryo (Kento Hayashi). Th...
At his previous school, Teacher Akira Kamiyama tried to stop a bullying case and the bullying became his own trauma. Since then, Akira Kamiyama has decided to not get involved if its not absolutely necessary. He then begins teaching at a middle schoo...
Akiho Takeda (Eikura Nana) is assigned to #3 investigation team for The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. On her first day at work, a burglary takes place at a jewelry store in Shibuya. The case though is taken by the #1 investigation team wh...
Natsumura Chihiro works as a teacher in a small elementary and middle school on a remote island in Kagoshima. Students from urban areas with problems such as bullying and truancy transfer to this school and live with host families.
Restaurant Raporu is located in Sangen-Jaya, Tokyo. Since their charismatic chef and owner died, the late chef's son Masaya (Keita Machida) has taken over the restaurant, but the restaurant is near foreclosure. Masaya's sister Mineko (Rikako Sakata) ...
With the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the Japanese manufacturing industry is in a precarious situation. A large electronics maker is on the brink of bankruptcy and can support itself for only 3 more mon...
Detective Seiichiro (Tomokazu Miura) has reached retirement age and retires. He's still haunted by an unsolved case from 7 years earlier. A woman's body was found in the sea. At minimum, Detective Seiichiro wanted to at least identify the body, but c...