Manager in Adult Cafe Matching a Man and Woman
大阪を舞台に描いた群像劇。通称「キタ」と呼ばれる大阪の繁華街で生きるアジア人たちの人生を描く。春のある日、大阪のキタにある古びたアパートの一室で白骨化した老女の死体が発見された。警察は捜査を開始し、アパート周辺で聞き込みを続けるが、孤独死なのか、あるいは財産がらみの謀殺なのか、さまざまな噂が飛び交っていた。同じころ、中国・台湾・韓国の観光客、マレーシアのビジネスマン、ネパールの難民、ミャンマー人留学生、ベトナム人技能実習生など、キタにやってきた外国人たちと、彼らと日常を共有する日本人たちの間に、さまざまな出来事が起こっている。やがて事件の捜査が終わるとき、人びとは新たな人生の岐路を迎える。
Atsushi limps and escapes from a closed facility for drug addicts. He has only one goal: to kill his wife. Straying around, he is hit on a country road at night. When the driver gets out to check on him, Atsushi takes the opportunity and steals his car. Completely surprised, he notices the middle school student Nanako in the passenger seat. Actually on the way to a hotel room with her customer, the young girl desperately clings to her key ring: the only thing she has left of her mother. Deeply wounded by life, the unequal couple embarks on a journey into the unknown.
After her mother's death, Kotomi does not leave the house. Her older sister Ikumi hides her worries about Kotomi behind a hard shell and has a few unorthodox methods to encourage their independence. Participating in the Kiryu City Miss ’local election is one of them.
無口で不器用な会社員の澤田には不妊症をきっかけにうつ病になった妻の存在があった。澤田はそんな妻を献身的に支えていたが、彼自身も次第に精神を病んでいく。そんな中、澤田の同僚として岸本という男が海外企業から転職してくる。澤田とは対照的に自信に満ち溢れた性格の岸本と親しくなるが、岸本の暴力性や猟奇的な一面を目の当たりにしてしまう。そんな岸本に恐怖感を覚える一方で、危険な魅力を放つ岸本のカリスマ性に徐々に魅せられていく。そして岸本から「もっと本能に忠実になれ」と吹き込まれ、心が揺れ動いていく澤田は、女性社員の美奈子と不倫の関係になってしまうが……。
The novelist Sawai enjoyed seeing the mirage on the Kugenuma Coast with his wife and friends as a breather for work. However, the headache of the having a disease occurred frequently as usual, and various illusions and hallucinations which seemed to invade from the mischief of the sand of the coast or the crack of daily life were seen, and an ominous event was encountered.
Koji had a thriving general store in the family business and was about to marry Fujiko, the daughter of a business tycoon. He went to talk to his lonely father about whether he should invite his friend to Korea for a wedding, but he tossed Koji with his dissocting remarks and deeds. Has my father gone crazy? And what is the "judgment" that father sentences Koji?
