Shota Gajin

The 2026 summer special of Fuji TV’s long-running anthology series presents four new strange tales. A veteran detective investigates a crime scene where evidence and bodies seem to vanish. A woman clearing her late mother’s apartment finds the past refusing to be thrown away. A young girl uses a mysterious costume to become an adult man. And a 26-year-old man discovers that his mother has been listed for auction online. Each story leads ordinary people into a surreal, unsettling world.

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Subjected to harsh treatment by her husband Jiro’s family, Fujiko is devastated when Mari is kidnapped by Jiro’s relatives. With the help of her own mother, Chiyo, Fujiko regains her child. Against the advice and judgment of those around her, she chooses to raise Mari as a single mother.

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A newbie editor joins the erotic-fiction desk at “France Publishing,” guided (and flustered) by her eccentric boss. In the digital era, the team fights to prove the value of print sensual literature and grows up in the process.

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Tokyo Bay Water Police, formed to combat rising maritime crime in under-patrolled waters contrasting land's high-surveillance success, unites a fractured team of officers—a veteran leader, an ambitious transfer detective, and a skilled marine engineer—whose clashing backgrounds evolve into collaborative resilience as they solve coastal crimes and protect Tokyo’s waterways.

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The film is a slapstick action comedy about company employees, known as "underground employees," who secretly handle problems that cannot be solved in public. The story unfolds when the group receives a mission to demolish a shuttered shopping district in order to build a commercial complex. Also appearing in the film are underground employees of rival companies with the same mission, a large landowner who is the target of both companies, a passionate man trying to revive a shopping district that is on the verge of collapse, and a man with some kind of secret.

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When a man's ex suggests a three-person marriage with her boyfriend, the trio face jealousy, social stigma and intimacy issues in their unique setup.

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Rei Kagami (Ryosuke Yamada) is a billionaire and the CEO of the leading conglomerate company Kagami Group. He is an extremely smart inventor, who has developed revolutionary products, and is now doing research on high precision AI. When he was little, he was a curious and kind kid. As he grew up, his curiosity remained, but he became self-centered. For certain reasons, he begins to teach at a school, while hiding his identity as a billionaire and the CEO of Kagami Group. His performance as a teacher is quite poor compared to his excellent work as a CEO. He is incapable of understanding the ordinary lives of the teachers and students around him.

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Izumi Morikuchi, a county police officer, investigates a murder linked to a college student's tragic death and police misconduct. Driven by guilt and determination, Izumi uncovers dark truths and fights for justice.

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Follows a boy who has lost all hope in life and encounters a group of “Showa Ghost Yankees” with unique personalities.

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Minami Hinako is the company president of Office CAT, a mysterious detective agency that accepts requests from women who wish to have help with their relationship issues. The company’s objective is not just to facilitate a breakup for the client, but to “abduct” the targeted individual. Otherwise known as “Thief Cat” Minami Hinako has a 100% robbery success rate. She skilfully manipulates her appearance and personality to make the target fall for her, thus tearing apart relationships between men and women. One day, the company receives a request from a woman named Hayakawa Risa, asking for help in stealing away her abusive boyfriend.

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A psychological thriller centered on Sakai Yoichi, a freelance video director, and Mitsumi Kei, a piano teacher who moonlights as a serial killer. When Yoichi, who is stuck in his current situation doing small jobs to make ends meet, returns to his office, there’s a package waiting for him. Inside is a human finger, and the message for Yoichi to get in touch if he’s interested to “document his activities.” Yoichi was going to call the police, but after considering, he decides instead to contact the sender. The person he meets at the designated house is none other than pianist Mitsumi Kei. This encounter leads Yoichi to continue documenting the murders, but what awaits him as a result of this decision… remains to be seen.

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An original anthology drama based on the theme of live streaming, that depicts the connections between online streamers ("livers") and their listeners.

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Following a failed confession to her first love, female high school student Mikoto Ochiai contemplates jumping off the roof of the school building. However, her thoughts are interrupted by the arrival of Jin Haiba, the physics teacher known for being a slacker and the butt of students' jokes. Calmly, he lights a cigarette and asks for an explanation of the events that led her to this precipice. Rather than dissuade her from killing herself, he makes a request—will she enter into a romance with him before she dies? Together, the two gradually ponder why they should keep living and why they should not love each other in earnest.

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Kazuha Ono is divorced at the age of 35 due to her husband's affair. Despite this, she is trying to live positively but is conscious of other people’s remarks regarding her age and the fact she’s a divorcee. While announcing her divorce to her coworkers she is overhead by Mitsui, a new employee, who happens to be there. Furthermore, Rensuke Hayami, a former business partner, now a popular actor, also appears, and begins to wield her Kazuha?!

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Gonta, a good-looking man living a false life in Tokyo, and Katsuyo, whose grandma is a powerful and energetic woman who lives an honest life in the countryside, suddenly exchange bodies one day.

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Keiichi is due to marry his girlfriend in 48 days when she returns from her business trip to China. However, before that happens, Keiichi ends up sharing his apartment with 3 other women and tries to hide this from Kano who happens to return home earlier than expected.

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The comedy manga's story centers on Oshako Jaeger, a woman who can't date men who don't live in fancy homes. She goes around judging the homes of various men.

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