Cast: Kyusaku Shimada

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Kyusaku Shimada · Yumi Yoshiyuki · Yuko Daike

Plot Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Direction Lee Sang-il

Cast Ryô Yoshizawa · Ryûsei Yokohama · Ken Watanabe · Mitsuki Takahata

Plot Yoshizawa Ryo takes on the role of kabuki actor Kikuo, who was born into a yakuza clan but through a strange twist of fate ended up being taken in by...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Kase · Toshie Negishi · Takehiro Murata · Saki Terashima

Plot Four people are murdered in an apartment block, but none of them seem connected.

Direction Shûichi Okita

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Munetaka Aoki · Yoichi Hayashi · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Plot Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Yuri Nakae · Narimi Arimori · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Takuro Atsuki · Keiju Kobayashi · Kin Sugai · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta...

Direction Ataru Oikawa

Cast Anri Ban · Hisako Shirata · Minami · Kyusaku Shimada

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ittoku Kishibe · Kyusaku Shimada

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Takanori Jinnai · Rie Miyazawa · Riki Takeuchi · Renji Ishibashi

Direction Satoshi Miki

Cast Ryûta Satô · Mikako Ichikawa · Yasuhito Hida · Yôichi Nukumizu

Plot Three "damejin" (persons who don't do anything with their lives and don't want to work) hear that 'in India one can live without working'.They begin to raise the money to...

Direction Yasuharu Ishii · Daisuke Yamamuro · Katsuhiko Ikeda

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Shun Oguri · Juri Ueno · Yo Yoshida

Plot Orphans who live in a shared home for such children attend the same elementary school and witness their teacher slayed. The police take note of their accounts. The case remains...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Takuro Atsuki · Yosuke Katsuno · Akira Emoto

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Noritake Kinashi · Kiichi Nakai · Kyoka Suzuki · Yôsuke Eguchi

Direction Masanori Tominaga

Cast Yutaka Matsushige · Atsuko Maeda · Machiko Ono · Tasuku Emoto

Plot When Akira Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Akira's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After...

Direction Tomo'o Haraguchi

Cast Nozomi Andô · Kyusaku Shimada · Keiko Matsuzaka · Moeko Ezawa

Plot The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission...

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Miki Hayashida · Eri Ishida · Yoichi Sai · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents...

Direction Yoshihiro Fukagawa

Cast Shôta Sometani · Pierre Taki · Issei Ogata · Kayoko Kishimoto

Direction Shinji Kuma

Cast Ren Nagase · Shô Kiyohara · Yûta Jingûji · Mio Yûki

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Masahiro Higashide · Masatoshi Nagase · Tatsushi Ohmori · Shun Sugata

Plot After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, a troupe of women's sumo wrestler arrive in the area near Tokyo. The group of female sumo wrestlers include Tomoyo and Tamae. Meanwhile,...

Direction Masaki Nishiura · Kazuhiro Kobayashi

Cast Yuriko Ono · Pinko Izumi · Masaki Kyômoto · Shingo Yanagisawa

Plot TV series (2014). 8 episodes.