Shigeru Wakita

両親と共に引越し先の新しい家へ向かう10歳の少女、千尋。しかし彼女はこれから始まる新しい生活に大きな不安を感じていた。やがて千尋たちの乗る車はいつの間にか“不思議の町”へと迷い込んでしまう。その奇妙な町の珍しさにつられ、どんどん足を踏み入れていく両親。が、彼らは“不思議の町”の掟を破ったために豚にされてしまう。

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love.

会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。