Makoto Araki

Travma geçirmiş eski bir savaş pilotu, savaş sonrası Japonyası'nda kıyılara saldıran nükleer destekli dev canavarı püskürtmek için sivil vatandaşların verdiği mücadeleye katılır.

High school student Yuki Hase wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. Even though Kaori tells Yuki why she doesn't want to become friends, Yuki still wants to become close to her.

Machisu, anne-babasını çocuk yaşta kaybettikten sonra yetimhanede büyür. Lisede bir sanat okuluna giren Machisu, bu konuda hiç yeteneği olmamasına rağmen ünlü ve başarılı bir ressam olma hayalleri kurmaktadır. Ne var ki bu konuda bir türlü başarılı olamaz. Sınıf arkadaşı Sachiko ile evlenen Machisu'nun bir de kızı olur. Yıllar geçtikçe ünlü bir ressam olma takıntısı giderek güçlenir ve baskınlaşır, ta ki tüm hayatını mahvedene kadar.

Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were stars back in those days, having slacked up their efforts subsequently, their daily life is lackluster now that the age of forty is just around the corner. They talk at a favorite local tavern just like they used to after Akira comes home giving up his dream to become an actor. Thinking back, they have never accomplished anything but ekiden, and they have unknowingly acquired a tendency to run away from problems in life in general. The phrase they cannot help muttering to themselves is how brilliant they were in those days… Feeling dispirited, they think of participating in the Shimanto Dragon Ride. A challenge for the four men in their late thirties begins…

Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Japan has a conviction rate of 99.9% for criminal cases that go to trial. A lawyer (Hiroki Hasegawa) is able to defeat those odds and obtain an acquittal for his client, even though there's conclusive evidence that says otherwise. Sometimes, due to minor things, good and evil can switch sides and good people can become bad people.

High schooler Ichitaka Seto is in love with classmate Iori Yoshizuki, but is too shy to tell her. Again and again, he plans to tell her his true feelings, but each time something – usually a misunderstanding of some kind – gets in the way. Things complicate further when Itsuki Akiba – whom Ichitaka was friends with in their childhood before she moved to the United States – returns, her crush on him still intact.