Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
阿久根純一が開設した探偵事務所に最初に訪れたのは夏木瑛子という看護婦だった。数日前に姿を消した姉、伸子を探して欲しいという依頼だった。伸子は新宿のクラブに勤めていたが、事件数日前からヤクザ風の男に自室のアパートに監禁されていたらしい。阿久根は伸子の男関係から捜査を開始し、クラブの支配人である篠村の元を訪れた。篠村は裏で大量の麻薬を動かしいたうえに、麻薬中毒の伸子と深い関係にあった。監禁について問い詰めると、麻薬を断って伸子を更生させるためだったという。篠村からの情報を頼りに捜査を進めていくと、伸子は父の遺産一千万円を手にしていたことがわかった。それは異父姉妹の瑛子も初耳の驚くべき情報だった。一千万円が怪しいと睨んだ阿久根は、秘書の瑠理と共に事件当日の状況を徹底的に洗い出していく。
Housemaid A of Tashiro family
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
