One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to take the case of Narumi's mother, Kimiko Torii, indicted for the murder of her second husband, company president Takefumi Torii. Kimiko married Takefumi 19 years ago, making him Narumi's stepfather. The couple are questioning whether Kimiko had the intent to kill...
Takehiko Kaida
A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her way up to be appointed General Manager of the office regarded as the General Staff Headquar- ters of the Bank with an assignment to liquidate its subsidiary by laying off 200 employees in total. Such mentally challenging appointment was made via recommendation by her senior colleague Mai, a smart and foxy woman running ahead of Tamaki in her career. With the help of her male colleague, Tamaki, a lone female wolf dares to challenge the all-male executives to prove what a true business person is all about.
Mayor of Usuki
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country helping farm families. At his new appointment in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture, he visits a tea-growing family he has known for a long time. There, he finds the family head's granddaughter Minori, who lost her job in Tokyo and has just returned home.
Host
A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.
Eri's Father
Итико — восемнадцатилетняя девушка, она учится в университете и подрабатывает в музыкальном магазине. Она живёт вместе со своим отцом, который работает переводчиком английских романов на японский язык. Её мать умерла семь лет назад. Итико познакомилась с Эри, и они влюбились друг в друга. Когда Итико решила признаться отцу в том, что она лесбиянка, отец шокирует её ответным признанием. Оказывается, он — гомосексуалист, а её мать тоже была лесбиянкой. Они оба хотели вырастить ребёнка и для этого поженились, хотя оба имели однополых партнёров. Отец же Эри намного более сдержано принимает свою дочь-лесбиянку. Связанная семейными обязательствами, Эри вынуждена разорвать отношения с Итико. Однако в конце концов они находят свой путь в жизни и снова оказываются вместе.
Enomoto
In Southeast Asia, armed guerillas storm a party being hosted by a major Japanese trading company. They kidnap Eri Enomoto (Rika Uesugi), the director's daughter, and demand a huge ransom. But company infighting stalls plans to comply with the kidnappers, and Eri's father collapses from the strain. When Eri's childhood friend, Miki (Natsuki Katoh), learns of the kidnapping and the company's reluctance to save her friend, she decides to try and rescue Eri on her own.
Senji
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories.
A woman's fiancé gets murdered shortly before their wedding and she starts investigating
Hideki Sakai
Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo), a university professor and a famous detective, is a big magic lover. He was asked to judge the Magic Competition to be held in Ito, and set out with his sister Nobuko, her lover's newspaper reporter Kenzo, and the brothers Shiro Kishibe. On the day, Shigeko Mizutani, who was supposed to play the guillotine technique, went missing, and she was found dead while her sister Yoshiko was taking her place. The suspects include Yoshiko, Shigeko's husband, Ryohei Mizutani, and her secretary, Yuriko.
Тацуо влюблён в одноклассницу Эйко и очень страдает от этого. Не всё в порядке и в семье: у отца большие неприятности с кредиторами, и его самочувствие постоянно ухудшается. Тацуо постепенно начинает входить во взрослый мир. Отец попадает в больницу, расходы на лечение ложатся тяжёлым бременем на семью. Тиё — мать Тацуо, часто рассказывала ему в детстве легенду о том, что если в апреле будет сильный снегопад, то летом над водопадом появится много светлячков, и если влюблённые увидят его, то им суждено будет быть вместе.
Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
