Tadashi Morishita

Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.

Based on the novel "Tsuyoki Ari" by Seicho Matsumoto In her past, Isako Sawada ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her and an executive of a corporation. They eventually married. Nobuhiro owns a large mansion and his money is managed by housekeeper Saki Tsubaki. Isako Sawada doesn't like that arrangement, but she hides her contempt because she has a plan. Her plan is to become a widow in 3 years and inherit one billion yen from her husband. Isako Sawada schemes to have Nobuhiro die in an apparent natural manner and she is having a relationship with another man.

형사 슌스케는 아내를 잃고 홀로 아들을 키우고 있다. 총상으로 휴직하고 있는 슌스케에게 어느날 먼 친척인 가츠야가 찾아와 사라진 약혼녀를 찾아달라고 한다. 약혼녀의 행방을 조사하던 중 실종된 약혼녀 미유키는 그녀의 진짜 이름이 아니며, 모든 것이 거짓이었음을 알게 된다. 과연 진짜 미유키는 어디있으며, 그녀는 왜 미유키의 삶을 살았던 걸까?

살인죄로 복역하고 있던 미카미 준이치는 형기를 4개월 남기고 가석방된다. 형무 주임이었던 난고 쇼지는 준이치를 찾아와 변호사인 스기우라를 도와 키하라 료라는 사형수에 관한 조사를 해 줄 것을 부탁한다. 료는 가석방 중에 감찰 보호관 부부를 살해한 혐의로 구속되었지만, 사건에 대한 기억을 전혀 가지고 있지 않았다. 현장 조사 결과 틀림없이 료가 범인이라고 지목되고, 준이치 일행은 료의 마지막 기억하는 계단을 단서로 사건을 밝혀나가는데...

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.