Seiichi Morimura

In Tokyo, 1974, a young African American is found dead in a lift. A knife is stuck deep into his chest and a streak of tear is running down his cheek. A policeman, Munesue starts to investigate the case. On the same day, there is a grand reception party held on the top floor by Kyoko, a popular beautician adored by everyone as an ideal wife and mother. The investigation reveals the victim was raised in a ghetto in NY, was able to speak a little Japanese, and his dying words was “su to u ha.” Startling connection between him and Kyoko is to be revealed…

The body of Kou Fujisaki, who fell to her death, is discovered in front of an old building in West Shinjuku. Chief Sakamoto notifies Ushio, who arrives at the scene. Ushio thinks that this must be a murder, but according to Yamaji, who was at the scene before him, an eyewitness testified that Kou had jumped off the roof of the building, killing herself. Kou is someone who has lingered in Ushio's memory - as a suspect...

The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person who didn't have any troubles. Kawagishi worked for a company in Kofu City in Yamanashi, leaving behind his wife and daughter on Awaji Island in Hyogo. He seems to have started working as a laborer 3 years ago, having fallen on hard times when the company went bankrupt. Saeko Kawamura, Ushio's reporter friend, calls him wanting to talk about the case. According to Saeko, Kawagishi was one of the survivors of the "bus hijack arson case" that happened three years ago. In the bus hijack arson case, a man who was hallucinating under the influence of dangerous drugs set fire to an intercity bus going to Shinjuku and departing from Kofu Station...

Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...

A look at Genghis Khan's life, from his birth to conquests in Asia.

911 receives a call from a young woman reporting the death of an acquaintance at a hotel, and Detectives Ushio and Ogami of Shinjuku West Police Station rush to the scene!! The caller is eventually identified as Megumi, a woman whom Detective Ushio's wife Sumie had met by chance, but Megumi too has been killed...

A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.

"아지사와 타케시(味沢岳史)"가 소속된 자위대의 비밀조직인 특수공작대가 토호쿠지방(東北地方)※의 산간지역(北上山地, 키타카미산지)에서 실시한 산악행동훈련 중에 이와테현(岩手県) 소재의 어느 벽촌 마을에서 도끼에 의해 13명이 살해당하는 대량 학살 사건이 발생한다.​​ 마을의 전 인구수와 같은 13명의 사체가 있었던 점으로 미루어 봤을 때, 살해된 피해자들은 전원 마을 사람들로 여겨졌지만, 경찰의 조사에서 피해자 중의 한 사람이 우연히 마을에 들렀던 여성 등산객이었던 것으로 판명된다. 다음날, 마을에서 살던 소녀 "나가이 요리코(長井頼子)"가 다른 곳의 헛간에서 기적적으로 살아남아 발견되는데, 경찰의 질문에 「파란 옷을 입은 남자가 데려 왔다」고만 증언할 뿐, 사건 당시의 상황은 전혀 기억하지 못하는데...

도쿄 아카사카의 고급 호텔의 엘리베이터에서 흑인 남자가 한 권의 시집과 수수께끼 같은 말을 남기고 살해되었다. 수사 선상에 패션 디자이너 야스기 쿄코와 그 아들, 흑인 남자의 과거를 쫓아 도미한 형사. 야스기와 흑인 남자의 뜻밖의 관계, 그리고 미국의 형사 동기와의 관계가 드러나는데… 모리무라 세이이치의 원작의 베스트 셀러를 드라마화 한 작품이다. 일본과 미국을 무대로 전후 30년이라는 세월에 새겨진 다양한 인간의 삶을 그린 서스펜스 드라마. 복잡한 인간상을 다양하게 그려내고 있다.

도쿄 아카사카의 고급 호텔의 엘리베이터에서 흑인 남자가 한 권의 시집과 수수께끼 같은 말을 남기고 살해되었다. 수사 선상에 패션 디자이너 야스기 쿄코와 그 아들, 흑인 남자의 과거를 쫓아 도미한 형사. 야스기와 흑인 남자의 뜻밖의 관계, 그리고 미국의 형사 동기와의 관계가 드러나는데… 모리무라 세이이치의 원작의 베스트 셀러를 드라마화 한 작품이다. 일본과 미국을 무대로 전후 30년이라는 세월에 새겨진 다양한 인간의 삶을 그린 서스펜스 드라마. 복잡한 인간상을 다양하게 그려내고 있다.

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.