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…

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 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…

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…

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

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

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

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 “A” in…

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…

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…