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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.
- 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.
- An ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A drama that follows the emotional and spiritual growth of teenage girl as she wrestles with love, family, and other matters.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 struggles against the odds in achieving her dream of becoming a Japan Airlines Cabin Attendant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Five bizarre tales for the fall of 2014.
- 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.
- 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.
- A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded JPY$5 billion from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
- A drama about a designer who doesn't receive any recognition and a successful painter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Detective Tomozo Sudo gets taken off the investigation section team after injuring himself in an incident. He gets sent to the window seat for the general affairs division of the police department known as 'MPD: Animal Unit,' a police department which looks after animals and plants. There, he meets Keiko Usuki, a female animal geek who has veterinary qualifications. She loves animals more than people, and Tomozo is not happy about the way in which Keiko is going about her own way. However, Keiko uses the assistance of pets left at different crime scenes, to solve criminal mysteries one after another, through her vast knowledge and sharp observation skills. Keiko, who never fails to show affection for any kinds of creatures, somehow helps her lead on to solving criminal mysteries. While being in directly controlled by Keiko, Tomozo gradually gains respect for her and their combination eventually becomes effective.
- 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.
- Koizumi, a cool, beautiful university student of few words, is in fact a ramen expert who seeks and tries out delicious ramen with gusto every day.
- A group of university students who belong to the same tennis club, Shino Yuta, Sakurada Miki, Sasaki Rinka, Takano Natsu, Fueki Mana, Tachibana Satsuki and Sakurada Wataru, go on a graduation trip to a cottage in the mountains in winter. Although the seven members seem to be good friends, each of them actually has secrets which they cannot tell anyone about; hidden feelings of love and jealousy. Yuta, the cool and brilliant president of the club, is attracted to the sociable and trusting Miki, and intends to tell her about his feelings on this trip, but things do not work out the way he wants. Miki is dating Yuta's good friend, the free-spirited Natsu and is so into him that she is blind to her surroundings. The seven friends have conflicting positions and when love starts to go down the tubes, a murder occurs like a bolt from the blue. Amid the fear and doubt, hidden emotions begin to come into the open through exchanges which probe each other's intentions.
- 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 young man joins a company to be a programmer. But he realizes that the office atmosphere is very strange. The group leader is imperious and despotic, others are indifferent, over fatigue, or sleek sophisticated. And the young man is compelled to become a slave to work.
- 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?
- A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- A 30-year-old, unsuccessful sci-fi writer Jun is asked by his editor to write a "love-themed" short story for an online magazine targeted for young readers.
- She was the best crime fighter on the force...until a powerful conspiracy turned everyone against her.
- Keisuke Okuyama (Shun Oguri) works as an attorney for the Shiraishi Law Office. One day, he receives a letter from Michiko (Reiko Kataoka). She is the stepmother of burglary and murder suspect Tatsuya Ando (Tsutomu Takahashi). When Keisuke reads "... please defend your friend Tatsuya Ando as his attorney," Keisuke begins to feel sick. His terrible past, which was buried in his mind, come back to him. It began 17 years ago, when Keisuke befriended Tatsuya. Tatsuya is a distant relative and just moved to Keisuke's neighborhood.
- A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.
- Segawa Rio, a quick-acting detective, gets transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Violent Crimes Division after she got shot during her previous case. She is made to work together with Nagumo Jun, a level-headed but eccentric psychology professor whose skills at behavioral analysis are the key to tracking down the criminals. There's also Teranishi Kei, a shy young detective who's had a crush on Segawa since their days at the academy.
- New adventures of a ramen-loving girl Koizumi who gets the opportunity to try a special ramen the way it is made in Germany and also has to deal with popularity after one of her friends posts a video on Youtube about her.
- Hongo Ban is a middle-aged man who is very particular about delicious meals. He would follow his own "tactics" - the advice of his inner "strategist" - on what to order as well as what sequence to eat. He visits all sorts of eating establishments and refines his strategy in pursuit of the perfect meal.
- The story revolves around two struggling comics, Takashi Komoto (Keisuke Koide) and Yohei Tanaka (Atsushi Ito), who have been performing together as a manzai comedy duo called "Boso Swimmers" for the past 12 years with very little success. The pair rarely discuss their concerns for the future together, even though they're now 30 years old with little hope of making it big. Even so, they maintain their passion for comedy and start keeping an "exchange diary" as a way of communicating with each other more frankly.