Masataka works as a freelance writer. He has been married to Yukie for the past 7 years. Yukie works as a school teacher. Masataka and Yuki are not in love with each other. They just haven't gotten divorced. Meanwhile, Masataka is having an affair with a young woman who delivers newspapers. This leads to a shocking situation.
Natsuha Mai is a 17-year-old high school student. She begins to work part-time, during her summer vacation, at her uncle's batting cage center. There, she meets a mysterious man named Ito Tomohiro. He is a former professional baseball player and he claims that he can discern a person's worries by looking at their batting swing. Ito Tomohiro comes to the batting center every night that Natsuha Mai works and watches female customers take batting practice. He tries to solve their worries by using baseball theory.
Yōsuke works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His wife, Aiko, informs him that she is pregnant. Due to a case, Yōsuke asks for an unusually long six-month paternity leave. Nobody at his workplace has taken a six-month paternity leave before. A few months later, Yōsuke's daughter is born.
With the spread of the internet, social media has become a crucial part of people's daily lives. However, its helpful, informative qualities are not all that comes with it. This omnibus drama series depicts social media's destructive ability to plant darkness and fear in the people trapped in its mysterious charm.
Sometimes in a woman’s life, passions boil over and lead them to do things that – in ordinary circumstances – they would never dream of doing. And sometimes this manifests itself in a desire for intimacy. This omnibus-style drama series focuses on a different woman in each episode, focusing on the series of events that led up to a single instance of “transforming into an animal.”
The stabbed corpse of IT company president Kinji Shiroyama (Yuichi Haba) is found in the Gulf warehouse at Hinode Pier. Unemployed Satoru Oki (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa) who ran away from the scene of the incident is arrested as the murderer. Fujiko Kajiwara (Yuki Matsushita), who was asked to be a duty lawyer meets him, but Ooki denies the charges makes repeats vague statements and refuses to tell the truth.
Hayame's happily married life comes to an abrupt end and she is left alone, penniless and homeless! Things couldn't get any worse, until she runs into rich high-school brat Issei, whom she had previously humiliated! Sparks fly as two worlds collide in this unlikely Cinderella story!
Mei Haneda wakes up with a missing year of memory. As she discovers a fiancé, job, and a best friend she thought was dead, her life unravels. Labeled a murder suspect, Mei must uncover the truth to prove her innocence.
Hizuki Hiiragi, a detective with the unique ability to recall scenes like photographs, is known as the Ice Queen for her relentless pursuit of criminals. As she solves cases with a team of eccentric detectives, she must confront a painful past she’s determined to forget.
The story centers on a high school girl who is stronger and cooler than any guy, the prince, and her beautiful best friend, the princess.
Zero Mishima is a mysterious 19-year-old transfer student who incites dropout high school students to "destroy this world with me." Although he is a mysterious person, he is adept at controlling people's hearts, and has the charisma to slip into the gaps in people's hearts and manipulate them with his skillful words. Instigated and guided by Zero, high school students eventually form a video group called Mars, and attempt to destroy the society created by adults then rebuild it...
Aya Nakayama (Manami Higa) is a 32-year-old housewife and she has been happily married for 2 years. To other people, Aya Nakayama and her husband look like the perfect married couple. One day, Aya Nakayama sees a message from a strange woman on her husband’s cellphone. She wonders if her husband is having an affair. She also remembers that she and her husband have not been intimate in the last two months. Aya Nakayama begins to find other evidence of her husband having an affair.
Daishi Morimiya is a high school student whose dream is to become a wheelchair, track-and-field athlete. In addition to that, Miyako Fukai, a former wheelchair athlete, becomes Daishi’s coach. One day, a handsome alien falls from the sky when Daishi was practicing with Miyako, surrounded by his friends and father (who is employed at an old factory). The handsome alien named Goo, after escaping a mass genocide somewhere in Earth’s binary star, warns Daishi and his friends that Earth is in danger. Then, a giant lizard-like monster who is after Goo, attacks Daishi’s household. That’s when Goo’s Mode Shifter begins to emit light, radiating Daishi. His body is completely transformed by a special protector. The transformed Daishi charges at the monster while still in his wheelchair.
Six months ago, life went dark for the underworld negotiator Kida when his lifelong friend and fellow former outcast Makoto became embroiled in a deadly plot. Makoto had risen to become the head of a powerful trading firm, but the events that unfolded on Christmas Eve put an end to all that. Since then, Kida has continued to drift through life without a single bright spark to light up his life. Nobody cares if he lives or dies except his underworld boss, who values Kida’s inimitable skills.
超特急、地球を救え。
There is a street piano placed in a music store on a shopping district. Sawamoto Ren is a young electrician who has stayed away from the piano for a long time, but decides to start to a new path as a street pianist after meeting Kajiwara Midori, the daughter of the music store owner. Soon later, people from various backgrounds stop by to play the street piano and have heart-to-heart interactions with Ren and Midori.
Three old men meet up at the park after work to discuss and carry out "money-free" games that they can enjoy themselves.
A woman who lost her memory after experiencing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Machika Otokawa (Mai Fukagawa) loses her future lover, Yukito Hatta (Yuta Koseki).. Sawako Fukai (Shuri), Yukito's ex-lover, appears before Machika, who is at a loss.. By chance, Sawako ends up living with Machika.. Machika's family welcomes the cheerful and thoughtful Sawako, but the voluptuousness and madness that Sawako occasionally shows spreads like poison to Machika's family and surroundings.. Kensuke Otokawa (Sota Ryosuke), Machika's younger brother who is attracted to Sawako's bewitching charm, Shinji Otsu (Kohei Shoji), a detective who approaches Machika, and Nono Igarashi (Hirai Amon), Kensuke's art school classmate, a reporter Kazuomi Makihara (Kazuya Tanabe), who suspects Machika, is quietly creeped out by Sawako's madness.. Why does the crazy Sawako target the people around Machika one after another…?
The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age in Hakodate and Kanazawa.