Tai Kageyama

While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) bir mahjong salonunda yarı zamanlı olarak çalışıp, üniversite okuyan bir gençtir. Salonda gece müşteriler arasında bir sohbet esnasında gizemli bir yaşlı kadından söz edildiğini duyar. Her gün bir bebek arabasıyla civarda dolaşan yaşlı kadın, bu işi on yıldır devam ettirdiği için müşterilerin de merakını cezbetmektedir. Tsuneo sabah işyerinden ayrıldığı sırada, gece bahsi geçen yaşlı kadına ait bebek arabasının bir yokuştan aşağı yuvarlandığına şahit olur. Araba bir bariyere çarpıp durunca yolun yukarısından seslenen yaşlı kadını da farkeder ve bebek arabasındaki örtüleri kaldırınca içinde genç bir kızın oturduğuna şahit olur. Genç kız önce bıçakla kendini savunmaya çalışır, çünkü yokuştan yuvarlanmadan önce birileri onları rahatsız etmiştir. Sonrasından yaşlı kadın ve kötürüm olduğu anlaşılan genç kıza (Joze (Kumiko)) evlerine kadar eşlik eden Tsuneo kahvaltıya davet edilince kabul eder ve genç kızın hazırladığı kahvaltıyı çok lezzetli bulur.

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?

The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear like the perfect family. However, things start to change when Mikiko manages to get her daughter in show business.