Yoichiro Kujo
One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant professor Natsuhiko Moriwaki, and insists on returning to the house she was born and raised in. It so happens that Hikojiro will be the one to treat her at home from now on. At the university hospital, Hikojiro runs into a familiar face - Hazuki, the daughter of Tetsuji Tonoyama, the man who taught Hikojiro how to make takoyaki. Hazuki is now a nurse at the university hospital and Hikojiro is surprised to see a strange poster on the hospital bulletin board that implies she's having an affair with Moriwaki. The hospital is currently preparing to elect a new chief surgeon, and the candidates are assistant professors Moriwaki and Shinsuke Noguchi, heads of the first and second surgical department. Both of their factions have been publishing defamatory statements about each other.
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
松本清張生誕１００年にあたり、清張の原点ともいえる傑作短編「顔」をドラマ化。 昭和３１年・東京。売れない劇団俳優・井野良吉（谷原章介）は、ある映画に端役で出演する。その独特の風貌が注目され、同じ劇団の看板女優・葉山瞳（原田夏希）が主演する大作映画の相手役に抜擢される。一躍、スターへの道を歩み始めた井野。しかし井野には、映画が注目され、自分の「顔」が売れるのを恐れる理由があった。９年前、井野は恋仲だった山田ミヤ子（原田夏希・二役）という女を殺した。殺害現場へ向かう列車の中で、ミヤ子と一緒にいる所を、偶然、ミヤ子の知り合いの石岡貞三郎（高橋和也）という男に目撃されていたのだ。ミヤ子を殺し、逃げるように上京してから９年。もし石岡が映画で自分の「顔」を見たら、ひた隠しにしてきた過去の殺人が暴かれてしまう。しかし、このチャンスを逃したくはない。名声をつかみ取りたいという欲望と、破滅への恐怖の狭間でゆれる井野の心に、いつしか一つのシナリオが芽生えていく。
Kuniro
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
