A romantically-clumsy office worker, Saya, has never been able to forget her feelings for a boy she knew in middle school. Her supervisor, Tsuge, is a cool, sagacious and ambitious man with a calculating mind and an illustrious history as a playboy. Full of promise and one the elite career path, Tsuge is relentless in his daily scolding of Saya, which makes it all the more surprising when she finds herself being asked out on a date by him. This is then compounded by a serendipitous encounter with her first crush, which suddenly brings excitement and romantic hope to Saya’s drab life in this Cinderella love comedy set in Japan’s hotel industry.

Police Corporal Kankichi Ryotsu of the Kameari Park Police Box, Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, is the best-intentioned guy you’d ever want to meet, but nothing he does ever goes right and he causes nothing but trouble. One day Ryotsu runs into Momoko, a girl he used to like way back in primary school. His heart leaps. Suddenly the Police Commissioner’s daughter is kidnapped, and Ryotsu learns that Momoko has been caught up in the case. For her sake, he sets to work solving it. But things he never expected start to happen, and he finds himself driven into a corner. Can he solve the case and save Momoko? And what will become of this bittersweet love story if he does? Ryotsu, an inveterate trouble-maker with the best intentions in the world, brings laughter and tears to the screen in a comic but moving entertainment.

Here comes the long-awaited television drama adaptation of a story that holds the Guinness Book record for longest-running serial comic at 33 years! Set in Tokyo’s venerable Kameari district with its vestiges of traditional downtown Tokyo, the story follows the heartwarming lives and zany antics of Captain Kankichi Ryotsu, his peers’and the people on his beat at the Kameari Park Front outpost of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Katsushika Precinct.

Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.