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Takashi runs a barbershop in a country town. Tomoe was Takashi's girlfriend back in his high school days. She visits him and they meet for the first time in 14 years. Tomoe is going to marry soon. She asks him to shave the back of her neck.
In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.
Hiroshi's mother
自分のことをごく平凡な家庭で普通に育った幸せな娘と信じていた楓（宮崎あおい）は、ある日、母親が父親の愛人だったという事実を知ってしまう。傷ついた楓は、心の拠り所にしている物理学者の博士（西島秀俊）の元へと向うが、博士は自分の壊れた家庭環境との葛藤（かっとう）から、楓の気持ちを受け止められず……。
Harue Kawana
老舗料亭の長女で高校生の里伽子は重いトラウマを抱えていた。誰にも打ち明けられず、親の前では“良い子”を演じ、夜遊びにふける毎日。妹・依里子はそんな彼女を憎んでいた。依里子は密かに想いを寄せる姉の親友・美樹が姉を好きなことが分かり、ますます嫉妬が募る。一方、大病院の息子・朋章は周囲から色メガネで見られ悪い噂が絶えない。そんな彼に後輩の高尾はいけないと思いつつ恋心を抱いてしまう。そして、高尾の同級生・篤志は高尾に恋していた。この複雑で微妙な関係が、里伽子と朋章の出会いによって崩れていくのだった…。
Mimasu Sadako
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
