Screenplay: Masato Kato

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki · Shûichi Okita · Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Kento Hayashi · Mugi Kadowaki · Kaoru Kobayashi · Nahana

Synopsis The series follows aspiring manzai (Japanese standup) comic Tokunaga (Kento Hayashi), who has been struggling to make it in the world of comedy. On an evening trip to spa town Atami, near Tokyo, for a fireworks festival he meets the...

Direction Shinji Higuchi

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Kou Shibasaki · Etsushi Toyokawa · Mao Daichi

Synopsis In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Nana Eikura · Tomorô Taguchi · Kimiko Yo · Mone Kamishiraishi

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Junichi Okada · Hiroshi Abe · Machiko Ono · Pierre Taki

Synopsis Makoto Fukamachi (Junichi Okada) is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hiroshi Abe · Yuko Takeuchi · Shôfukutei Tsurube

Synopsis Helped by her nephew, Koji, Etsuko runs a lovely little seaside café where the locals like to gather, gossip and drink her delicious coffee. People with problems are somehow attracted to the café, and by meeting Etsuko their lives begin...

Direction Taro Hyugaji

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Erika Oda · Chizuru Ikewaki · Teppei Koike

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Kaya Kiyohara · Taishi Nakagawa · Eita Okuno

Synopsis Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu.

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Yusuke Iseya · Koichi Sato · Kyôko Koizumi · Kazue Fukiishi

Synopsis Manabu Yazaki had left his family's home in Hokkaidō years before to go to Tokyo to earn a degree, start a company and get married. Now, divorced and pursued by creditors, he returns to his home and the family he...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Koichi Sato · Masahiko Nishimura · Michiko Kichise · Akira

Synopsis Four friends set off on a journey to what they believe is "Heaven on Earth", the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, to find new meanings to life.

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Masato Sakai · Machiko Ono · Masahiro Takashima

Synopsis A newspaper editor (played by Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Sakuma · Yôko Minamino · Kirin Kiki

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Yû Aoi · Masaki Okada · Pîtâ · Jun Murakami

Synopsis The mentally troubled son of a shogun falls for a girl who's been raised in the mountains.

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Lily Franky · Shingo Katori · Naomi Nishida · Takuma Otoo

Synopsis A man (Shingo Katori) works at a printing plant, but he gets fired from his job. The man, his female partner and her daughter move to her hometown. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Matsuoka Shunsuke · Eugene Nomura · Tsugumi Arimura · Miwako Kawai

Direction Yoichiro Takahashi

Cast Ayumi Ito · Kenji Mizuhashi · Ren Osugi · Yoshiko Sekino