Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai’s prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard…

Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: “What if Shota attends the resident’s meeting and not Nana?” and “What if…

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor…

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I (Bakarhythm) am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the…

Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily,…

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for “poetry boxing” and decides to…

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template…

An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked.

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also…

A single woman runs an unconventional service that rents housecats to lonely people.

Ryosuke Yoshii is an ordinary person, who supports himself by reselling things on the internet. He carelessly earns grudges by people around him and, in the end, he is dragged…