Daihachi Yoshida

Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle.

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"Wanna hear about the dream I had last night?" A man in his early thirties, living an utterly ordinary life—too old to proudly declare "I'm still young!" yet not quite ready to accept being called "old man." As he begins recounting the dream he suddenly recalled from last night, past and present begin to warp. Is the world here and now reality, or a dream? Is the person I saw in that dream someone I once knew? Amidst the sense of impending collapse, the song keeps playing.

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The president of the Kunpusha publishing giant suddenly dies, triggering an internal power struggle over his successor. Trinity magazine editor Hayami is forced to contend with the magazine's possible termination by senior manager Tomatsu. Hayami grapples with publishing world ruffians in a struggle for the magazine's very existence.

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Noda Ryusuke is a popular scriptwriter specialising in stories about the perfect married couple but is shocked when his wife of 23 years suddenly wants to get a divorce.

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Six unknown people move to the declining seaport city of Uobuka. Unremarkable city official, Tsukisue, is appointed to welcome them, but finds out the shocking truth that all of them are former murder suspects. Before long, an uneasiness begins to creep over the quiet city.

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A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity.

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Wakaba Bank contract employee Rika meets university student Kota at a client's home. Unknown to her husband Masafumi, she engages in secret rendezvous with Kota, and begins to embezzle money from her clients' accounts to buy expensive cosmetics and pay off Kota's debt.

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A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.

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Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.

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Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special Unit. He also boasts that he is the offspring of Kamehameha I and a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth of England. In actuality, the man is a marriage swindler looking for his next big score.

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Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.

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Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle.

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"Wanna hear about the dream I had last night?" A man in his early thirties, living an utterly ordinary life—too old to proudly declare "I'm still young!" yet not quite ready to accept being called "old man." As he begins recounting the dream he suddenly recalled from last night, past and present begin to warp. Is the world here and now reality, or a dream? Is the person I saw in that dream someone I once knew? Amidst the sense of impending collapse, the song keeps playing.

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The president of the Kunpusha publishing giant suddenly dies, triggering an internal power struggle over his successor. Trinity magazine editor Hayami is forced to contend with the magazine's possible termination by senior manager Tomatsu. Hayami grapples with publishing world ruffians in a struggle for the magazine's very existence.

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A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity.

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A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.

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