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- Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the owner of a host bar over to the place where Ryo Morinaka works. Shizuka Mido is the owner of the host bar. Soon, Ryo Morinaka begins to work for Shizuka Mido at the members only host bar. He feels embarrassment initially, but he fulfills the desires of women and develops a sense of purpose.
- The story of a 15-year-old high school student, Ikeuchi Aya, who soon discovers she has an incurable disease that affects the cerebellum of the brain. Aya lived her life to the fullest until her death at 25.
- Mizuki disguises herself as a boy and transfers to the same all-boys high school her idol, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete that gave up on the sport, attends. In between the antics of their classmates, she'll try to get him to jump again.
- An ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
- Asakawa is a journalist. He is witness to the strange death of a biker. Later this day, he learned that his niece Tomoko died suddenly of heart failure at the same time as the biker .So, he decide to go to the cottage where Tomoko and three of those friends were Then, he find a videotape and watch it. The curse is going on, now.
- The supposedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervenes when a drunk man is harassing several women on a train. The otaku ultimately begins dating one of the women, and posts on a website asking for advice every step of the way.
- Sawada Takuto is an ordinary university student, who one day learns that he has A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease) with not much time left to live. Instead of wallowing in despair, Takuto tries to live his life to the fullest.
- A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
- Urara Shiraishi (Mariya Nishiuchi) is a model student with excellent grades. Ryu Yamada (Yusuke Yamamoto) is a trouble student. One day, Urara tumbles down the stairs with Ryu. After the accident, their bodies become switched. When they tumbled down the stairs, they happened to kiss. They guess that they may have changed bodies because of the kiss. They kiss again and they get their own bodies back. Through kissing they can change bodies freely. They also learn that there are 7 witches with special abilities. The 7 witches can use their special abilities by kissing. Urara and Ryu set out to find the 7 witches.
- 20 year old Tsukimi Kurashita (Kyoko Yoshine) can barely see without her glasses. She came to Tokyo from Kagoshima Prefecture to become an illustrator, but she doesn't attend college or sells any of her illustrations. She lives at a communal apartment. At the apartment, only otaku type women live there. Tsukimi Kurashita likes jellyfish due to memories she has with her late mother. One day, due to a jellyfish, Tsukimi Kurashita meets Kuranosuke Koibuchi. He loves fashion and his hobby is to dress up like a woman. She also meets Kuranosuke's older brother Shu Koibuchi. Her life soon changes because of them.
- A drama that follows the emotional and spiritual growth of teenage girl as she wrestles with love, family, and other matters.
- A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
- Attorneys Kensuke and Machiko receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kuzyo who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.
- Who among us does not spend a portion of the time daydreaming or fantasizing? The difference is that for most when it comes to romantic fantasies the subject of our thoughts is unaware of it - or at least is not a telepath. See what happens when the rich heir to a corporate throne happens to be telepathic and responds to the vivid fantasies and sentiments of an office lady working for the company.
- A science fiction writer finds out his wife has cancer, and decides to write her a story every day to keep her alive, like a reverse Scheherazade or perhaps to cope with the inevitability of his loss.
- In wartime Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
- A young woman struggles against the odds in achieving her dream of becoming a Japan Airlines Cabin Attendant.
- Five bizarre tales for the fall of 2014.
- A middle school student falls off from the school's rooftop. The school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. The student's mother doesn't believe it and goes to see attorney Kensuke to take her case out.
- Yukihira Natsumi is a no-nonsense, intelligent Tokyo homicide cop known as the department's "number one" case closer who nevertheless also has a bad reputation for not working well with others and pushing the limits of the law. As she sees it, her only job is bringing in the bad guys and the results are all that counts. However, she is haunted by a hostage case five years prior in which she had to pull her weapon and kill a man, which earned the ire and distrust of some of her coworkers and members of the community. To bring balance to her life, Natsumi must find a way to deal with her demanding work, the aftermath of a divorce, and caring for her young daughter-all while chasing down a serial killer who's taunting the police with serialized short stories that foretell the next murder with no time to spare.
- The first of April, otherwise known as April Fools day, is the one day of the year when it is OK to lie. With seven stories at play and connections everywhere the story includes the old, the young, the innocent, the criminal and many things in-between.
- Born in an affluent family, Sakurako is grown beautiful but rather spirited and speaks roughly. As an osteologist, she reconstructs skeletal remains of animals in her atelier at home when receiving job offers from museums. Deeply inspired by the beauty and majesty of bodies, her eccentricity is remarkable. "Dead bodies speak eloquently." says Sakurako, at the events of examining incidents. She observes bodies and the crime scenes very carefully, and reveals the truth one by one. Kujo Sakurako, the beautiful osteologist, resolves the cases with her expertise hearing the "voice" of bones. How does this extraordinary heroine resolve cases?
- Yoriko is a hard-working and rigid young woman and Takumi is an unemployed young man. They believe that they are unsuited for love, think of marriage as a contract and and start dating with the goal of getting married.
- Prize winning journalist, Michiko Takamine receives an autobiographical manuscript from recent suicide victim Sakiko, the daughter of imprisoned serial killer Fujiko. Before publishing the manuscript, Michiko seeks to interview Fujiko in prison to determine its validity. This story of murder and intrigue goes much deeper then Michiko envisioned and has a unique family twist.
- Ryuichiro's bride, company president Mayumi Kitahara dies, leaving him to take care of her daughter Natsumi. Natsumi moves into Ryuichiro's flat, but he sets to work to be the father she never had.
- Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue.
- Based on novel «Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie»
- Mizuki Ashiya is a high school girl who dresses up like a boy so she can attend the all-male boarding school Sakurazaki Academy. All of this is a plan to meet athlete Izumi Sano, a high jumper who quit the sport due to an injury.
- Mamoru Takagi's best friend suddenly dies from cancer, leaving behind his twin children, Kaoru and Tomoki. The children's mother had abandoned them when they were young, and they had no other dependents left. The twins' relatives argue over who will take responsibility for them. In the end, the twins are separated. However, the twins are extremely close, and both run away from their respective foster families. Marumo manages to find them, and after a brief struggle to bring them back, Marumo gives in and agrees that the twins can stay with him.
- 42-year-old Utsumi Takayuki works for Second Division of Hinode Advertising's Planning and Sales Department. He was transferred from the General Affairs Department one year ago, but he keeps delivering the worst sales performance. Utsumi is not eloquent, poor at dealing with things and is a pushover too. He always gets reprimanded by his boss Dozono Shoko. His only pleasure is skipping work, going to the public bath in the day on a weekday and gulping a beer down his dry throat after that. Utsumi cannot resist the temptation when he sees a public bath during working hours despite his sense of guilt. On this day too, he calls his company with the excuse that he has urgent business and walks through the door of a public bath in high spirits. When he pays the fee, takes off his suit and enters the bath, the best moment awaits him.
- A young woman, Yuki Kawahara (Mizukawa) is hired as an assistant by a well-known novelist, Risa Tonou (Nakatani). The novelist suffers from writer's block after years of intense pressure from her publisher to produce novels and screenplays. The assistant, herself an aspiring writer, at first offers ideas for plots and then eventually takes over all of the writing duties, sacrificing her own career in the process. An engaging psychological drama with many plot twists follows over ten episodes.
- An extraordinary teacher, Naomi Todo, is hired by a school undergoing reforms to be the teacher-in-charge of a problematic class. With her very unusual way of teaching, she changed her students and influenced her colleagues, including two other faculty members named Naomi: Naomi Kai and Naomi Yashiro.
- Tooru Igarashi is a lecturer with charisma, working at a prestigious preparatory school. Recently, he drinks a lot and his life falls apart. Maki Endo is a student at a part-time high school. Every day, she is exhausted with working multiple jobs to cover her expenses. One day, Tooru and Maki happen to meet each other. Maki wants to graduate high school to get a regular job and asks Tooru to tutor her for her test-retest. After Tooru quit his prep school job, he has lost his pride and passion to teach. Tooru was also diagnosed to have only a year left to live. He decides to teach Maki and get her into the University of Tokyo.
- Set after WW II, "Wagaya no Rekishi" (The History of Our Family) follows the Yame family and its 7 members over the next two decades. The drama will provide a mixture of laughter, romance, drama, and suspense.
- Forced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. When taking roll call on the first day one of his students, Hotta Ito, sneaks into class late, claiming a bogus excuse--that she got a ticket after trying to park her deer in front of the train station. He makes immediate enemies with Hotta when he tells his superiors about her tardiness and attitude. In the following days, he begins to notice something unusual about Hotta, but he can't seem to put his finger on it. With an odd group of colleagues who live together with him, Ogawa slowly accustoms to life in slow-paced Nara, where there seem to be as many deer as people. Walking through Nara Park one day, he begins to befriend the local deer population, feeding them rice wafers. After being confronted by a talking deer who commandeers him to prevent the destruction of Japan, he fails in his first mission and the talking deer exacts punishment--looking into the mirror the next day, he discovers he has turned into a deer from the shoulders up. Ogawa slowly begins to piece the puzzle together: the talking deer, the mysterious student, and a recent series of earthquakes that could spell doom for Japan.
- A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- Hiroshi Kokusho was an ace of his high school's rugby club and used to receive attention all over the country. However, his aggressive play and selfishness got himself injured and he had no choice but to retire. Hiroshi got a job and lived alone after graduating from high school. However, a fight caused him to get fired from his job and he got kicked out from his apartment. A man then approached Hiroshi and said that he will introduce him to a perfect job which turned out to be the "Japan Ground Self-Defense Force" that protects the country's peace and security. Hiroshi, who used to be an immature man, got enlisted and became a full-fledged self-defense officer while wearing the combat helmet.
- A drama about a designer who doesn't receive any recognition and a successful painter.
- A mysterious doll and a message is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Akira (Kie Kitano) realizes that the doll and the message are related to when she was kidnapped 20 years ago. Akira investigates a kidnapping case involving a girl and a case involving the death of a lawmaker's secretary. During the course of her investigation, she faces the truth behind the case when she kidnapped as a child.