このドキュメンタリー映画には、萩本欽一のエンターテインメントへのあくなき執念と狂気を秘めた番組制作の奥義、そしてテレビマンたちの熱意が収められた映像である。
Haruo Aso
声優を目指して奮闘中の麦子が、兄・憲男と暮らすところに、かつて二人を捨てた母・彩子が戻ってくるが、間もなく病のために、帰らぬ人となる。麦子は、納骨のため母がかつて青春を謳歌した田舎を訪れると、町の人気者だった彩子に似ている麦子の登場に町の人々は活気づく。そんな彼らと交流するうちに、麦子は自分の知らない母の一面を垣間見ることになる。
Ken, a newspaper carrier attends college without registering. Haru was watching Ken steal a piece of bone from an archeology laboratory, "Never gotten someone so closely". They hold earch other on the street in the mid-night. Just as they begin to live together, Ken gets caught on stealing again. An associate professor, Shikishima entices Ken into his research instead of rebuking. One night, Shikishima comes to Haru to confess that she resembles his dead girlfriend. The lonely journey of lovers accelerates on.
In the year 2024, the Governer of Tokyo puts a group of young girls through torturous training, and the three that remain - dubbed the Zebra Mini-Skirt Police - are charged with the task of protecting his life…
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Denbei Koike
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Yoshida
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