Taijiro Tamura

Old Narcissus

When pregnant Mia Sakaguchi falls from a staircase at the shrine, she is transferred to 1994 and immediately admitted to a mental institution, because no one believes her that she is from the future. There she is confronted with the shocking truth that the mentally ill are forcibly sterilized. In order to protect her unborn child, she tries to escape from the institution.

Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.

When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.

仕事を辞めて何もせずに生活していた達夫は、パチンコ屋で気が荒いもののフレンドリーな青年、拓児と出会う。拓児の住むバラックには、寝たきりの父親、かいがいしく世話をする母親、そして姉の千夏がいた。達夫と千夏は互いに思い合うようになり、ついに二人は結ばれる。ところがある日、達夫は千夏の衝撃的な事実を知る。

(I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. There he meets an ill kid in the hospital named Ishii Daisuke who is living his life positively, and the store staff Katou Kumi, who always smiles even though she had a sad past. He gains confidence and decides to start his rehabilitation. After Yasuyuki is discharged from the hospital, he starts relying on everybody everywhere, so he falls into despair and starts thinking of committing suicide seeing no future for himself.

牛舎を営む家庭に生まれ、幼い頃より家事を手伝ってきためぐみ。彼女は、必要以上に発育した自身の胸にコンプレックスを持っていた。毎日、牛乳配達に出かけても、すれ違う男たちから胸をのぞき見られることに息苦しさを感じていたのだ。だが彼女には、誰にも打ち明けられない性癖があった。働く男の手がたまらなく好きで、繊細で無骨な手を見ると、自分の胸を激しく揉まれたくなってしまうのだった。

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who recently lost his job, and several others whose lives become intertwined in various unexpected ways.

クローン技術が発達した近未来の日本。不慮の事故で殉職した宇宙飛行士・高原耕平は合法的にクローンとして蘇る。 しかし記憶のコピーに失敗したために記憶障害を起こし、幼い頃に自分のせいで双子の弟・昇を死なせてしまった記憶ばかりが頭から離れなくなる。 クローン再生の失敗を隠蔽したい影山所長らはひそかにクローンの耕平に安楽死の薬を投与する。病院を抜け出したクローンの耕平は、宇宙服を着た自分の死体（の幻）を見つける。 そしてそれを死んだ昇と思い込み、母親・洋子のもとに届けようと故郷をめざすが、投与された薬によって息絶える。

Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars. That evening, Chiho became outraged by the foul odor of the Peace Regulars saying it reminded her of an elderly relative having shoved the same brand of cigarettes into her genitals in the distant past. In fact that memory was not Chihos, but that of her twin sister, Kaho.

１９４５年８月。昭和天皇は疎開した皇后や皇太子たちと離れ、地下待避壕での生活を送っていた。御前会議で本土決戦を提唱する陸軍大臣に対し、天皇は明治天皇の歌を詠み、降伏の用意があることを示唆する。東京大空襲の悪夢にうなされて目を覚ました天皇は、侍従の迎えで占領軍最高司令官であるダグラス・マッカーサーとの会見に向かう。天皇はマッカーサーへ、連合国のどのような決定も受け入れる準備があると告げる。

奇妙な殺人事件が立て続けに発生していた。それぞれの事件の犯人につながりはないが、犠牲者の首から胸にかけてがX字型に切り裂かれていること、いずれの加害者も事件直後に犯行現場付近で逮捕されること、そして犯行の直前まで犯人に明確な殺意がなかったことが共通していた。やがて、一連の事件に関連のある人物として記憶喪失の放浪者、間宮が浮かび上がる。マインドコントロールによる猟奇殺人を描くサイコサスペンス。