Yuko Hizaki is a child psychologist working for the city’s child counseling service. She’s saddled by a senile father and a mother grown weary of nursing. Shunsuke Sudo is a high school teacher resistant to the idea of marrying and building a family with his girlfriend. Ai Yoshizawa, who is highly antisocial, is one of his students. Koki Mamihara is a cop who suspects foul play in a family suicide. The case begins to rouse each character to life amid a rush of events in this foray into the pettiness, pathos and nobility of human nature, based on a representative work by novelist Arata Tendo.
치매를 앓는 아버지와 간병에 지친 어머니를 돌보며 아동상담소에서 근무하는 아동심리사 히자키 유코. 애인과 가정을 꾸리는 것에 강한 거부감을 느끼는 고교교사 스도 슌스케, 마음의 문을 닫은 여고생 요시자와 아이. 어떤 한가족의 자살사건에 의문을 품은 형사 마미하라 코키. 이 사건을 계기로 관련되어가는 사람들은 격류속에서 각자 생의 삶에 눈뜨기 시작한다. 인간의 추악함, 슬픔, 고귀함. 그 모든것을 담은 덴도 아라타의 대표작을 드라마화했다.
37.5 degrees Celsius is the highest temperature permitted for a child to attend daycare. But children do run fevers, and when that happens, what can you do? Parents can’t simply leave their sick children at home while they go off to work. But they also must work. Enter the “sick child” caregiver to ...
114 min. × 1 ep. / 85 min. × 1 ep. / 75 min. × 2 eps. / 60 min. × 6eps.｜10 episodes
Persistence is the key ingredient to achieving a lifelong dream. As a space science researcher, Kohei Tsukuda harbors such a dream. But when his father passes away, he finds himself returning home to take over his a small engine factory located in an old part of town. As the 2nd president of Tsukuda...
Iku Kasahara joins the ‘Task Force’, the special unit of the Kanto Area Library Defense Force, in search of her ‘prince’, a Task Force member who once rescued a book about to be seized from her by the ‘Betterment Squad’, the paramilitary arm of the Censorship Enforcement Agency. She does not remembe...
Screenwriter Yumiko Inoue and producer Hiroki Ueda join forces to spin a wholly new type of nurse story reminiscent of an ancient inner palace drama. Set in a top-class hospital where nurses cater to a very exclusive and well-heeled class of clientele, a once altruistic nurse, Akari Arimura, lands w...
The male-female reversal of fortunes all began here… in the Edo period under the rule of third-generation Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu. An epidemic illness affecting only men and boys has thinned the male population to one-quarter that of females. Iemitsu himself falls ill and succumbs to the plague, sp...
In 2002, a kidnapping has eerie parallels with ‘six-four’, an unsolved case from 1989 on which the Statute of Limitations looms one year hence.
The year 1989 began in Japan as ‘Showa 64’, the 64th year of the reign of the Showa Emperor Hirohito. With his death on January 8th, a new era began, and ...
Kokoro Kurosawa is a musclebound judo athlete who upon graduation from university joins a major publishing company and is assigned to the editing desk of a weekly comic magazine called “Vibes”, full or very unique individuals and oddly-named senior editor, Iokibe. She becomes enthralled with the wor...
Miyuki Miyamoto is an 8-year-old girl who lost her mother few years ago and now lives with her father, Ryoichi. When one day a hard-working career woman, Akiko Iwamoto, appears and becomes Miyuki’s new stepmom, Miyuki resists, particularly seeing Akiko presents herself with a business card. But Akik...
The setting is a nursery school. But it’s far from being an ordinary place where mothers simply drop off and pick up their children every day. Instead, it is a small and tightly-knit society governed by a “mother caste” social order where mother harassment and matriculation exam troubles occur daily...
Ever since high school, Yuriko Busujima has been without several boyfriends. Now into her third year as a political beat reporter for a newspaper, she finds herself in a 4-year relationship with a musician named Midori and courting another guy. “Marriage is hell” and “Betray a guy before he betrays ...
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