Mako Hattori

九州から東京へ転校した中学生の一郎、通称ムキンポは、転校早々、同級生の桃子に一目惚れ。だが、不良グループの手荒い歓迎を受けた彼は、桃子が番長の健太郎からプロポーズされていると知ってさらに意気消沈。そんなある日、妹の急病で夜中に病院へ行った一郎は、桃子が院長の娘だと知るとともに、彼女と親しくなる。彼はもっと彼女と親しくなろうと友人たちを家に招いてパーティーを開くが、つい健太郎まで誘うはめになる。

At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.

Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?