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- Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the owner of a host bar over to the place where Ryo Morinaka works. Shizuka Mido is the owner of the host bar. Soon, Ryo Morinaka begins to work for Shizuka Mido at the members only host bar. He feels embarrassment initially, but he fulfills the desires of women and develops a sense of purpose.
- A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
- Mizuki disguises herself as a boy and transfers to the same all-boys high school her idol, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete that gave up on the sport, attends. In between the antics of their classmates, she'll try to get him to jump again.
- The story of a 15-year-old high school student, Ikeuchi Aya, who soon discovers she has an incurable disease that affects the cerebellum of the brain. Aya lived her life to the fullest until her death at 25.
- An ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
- A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
- The supposedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervenes when a drunk man is harassing several women on a train. The otaku ultimately begins dating one of the women, and posts on a website asking for advice every step of the way.
- Sawada Takuto is an ordinary university student, who one day learns that he has A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease) with not much time left to live. Instead of wallowing in despair, Takuto tries to live his life to the fullest.
- Asakawa is a journalist. He is witness to the strange death of a biker. Later this day, he learned that his niece Tomoko died suddenly of heart failure at the same time as the biker .So, he decide to go to the cottage where Tomoko and three of those friends were Then, he find a videotape and watch it. The curse is going on, now.
- Urara Shiraishi (Mariya Nishiuchi) is a model student with excellent grades. Ryu Yamada (Yusuke Yamamoto) is a trouble student. One day, Urara tumbles down the stairs with Ryu. After the accident, their bodies become switched. When they tumbled down the stairs, they happened to kiss. They guess that they may have changed bodies because of the kiss. They kiss again and they get their own bodies back. Through kissing they can change bodies freely. They also learn that there are 7 witches with special abilities. The 7 witches can use their special abilities by kissing. Urara and Ryu set out to find the 7 witches.
- 20 year old Tsukimi Kurashita (Kyoko Yoshine) can barely see without her glasses. She came to Tokyo from Kagoshima Prefecture to become an illustrator, but she doesn't attend college or sells any of her illustrations. She lives at a communal apartment. At the apartment, only otaku type women live there. Tsukimi Kurashita likes jellyfish due to memories she has with her late mother. One day, due to a jellyfish, Tsukimi Kurashita meets Kuranosuke Koibuchi. He loves fashion and his hobby is to dress up like a woman. She also meets Kuranosuke's older brother Shu Koibuchi. Her life soon changes because of them.
- A young woman struggles against the odds in achieving her dream of becoming a Japan Airlines Cabin Attendant.
- Mizuki Ashiya is a high school girl who dresses up like a boy so she can attend the all-male boarding school Sakurazaki Academy. All of this is a plan to meet athlete Izumi Sano, a high jumper who quit the sport due to an injury.
- Attorneys Kensuke and Machiko receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kuzyo who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.
- A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded JPY$5 billion from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
- In wartime Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
- A drama that follows the emotional and spiritual growth of teenage girl as she wrestles with love, family, and other matters.
- Born in an affluent family, Sakurako is grown beautiful but rather spirited and speaks roughly. As an osteologist, she reconstructs skeletal remains of animals in her atelier at home when receiving job offers from museums. Deeply inspired by the beauty and majesty of bodies, her eccentricity is remarkable. "Dead bodies speak eloquently." says Sakurako, at the events of examining incidents. She observes bodies and the crime scenes very carefully, and reveals the truth one by one. Kujo Sakurako, the beautiful osteologist, resolves the cases with her expertise hearing the "voice" of bones. How does this extraordinary heroine resolve cases?
- 42-year-old Utsumi Takayuki works for Second Division of Hinode Advertising's Planning and Sales Department. He was transferred from the General Affairs Department one year ago, but he keeps delivering the worst sales performance. Utsumi is not eloquent, poor at dealing with things and is a pushover too. He always gets reprimanded by his boss Dozono Shoko. His only pleasure is skipping work, going to the public bath in the day on a weekday and gulping a beer down his dry throat after that. Utsumi cannot resist the temptation when he sees a public bath during working hours despite his sense of guilt. On this day too, he calls his company with the excuse that he has urgent business and walks through the door of a public bath in high spirits. When he pays the fee, takes off his suit and enters the bath, the best moment awaits him.
- Five bizarre tales for the fall of 2014.
- Yukihira Natsumi is a no-nonsense, intelligent Tokyo homicide cop known as the department's "number one" case closer who nevertheless also has a bad reputation for not working well with others and pushing the limits of the law. As she sees it, her only job is bringing in the bad guys and the results are all that counts. However, she is haunted by a hostage case five years prior in which she had to pull her weapon and kill a man, which earned the ire and distrust of some of her coworkers and members of the community. To bring balance to her life, Natsumi must find a way to deal with her demanding work, the aftermath of a divorce, and caring for her young daughter-all while chasing down a serial killer who's taunting the police with serialized short stories that foretell the next murder with no time to spare.
- Based on novel «Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie»
- A middle school student falls off from the school's rooftop. The school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. The student's mother doesn't believe it and goes to see attorney Kensuke to take her case out.
- Helen the Baby Fox tells the story of Taichi and a fox cub, whom Taichi found by the side of the road. The cub is blind, deaf and mute and Taichi names it Helen, after Helen Keller who suffers from similar disabilities. They faced much skepticism and criticism from the people around them, and difficulties stemming from Helen's physical disabilities.
- The first of April, otherwise known as April Fools day, is the one day of the year when it is OK to lie. With seven stories at play and connections everywhere the story includes the old, the young, the innocent, the criminal and many things in-between.
- A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- The story revolves around two struggling comics, Takashi Komoto (Keisuke Koide) and Yohei Tanaka (Atsushi Ito), who have been performing together as a manzai comedy duo called "Boso Swimmers" for the past 12 years with very little success. The pair rarely discuss their concerns for the future together, even though they're now 30 years old with little hope of making it big. Even so, they maintain their passion for comedy and start keeping an "exchange diary" as a way of communicating with each other more frankly.
- A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.
- Who among us does not spend a portion of the time daydreaming or fantasizing? The difference is that for most when it comes to romantic fantasies the subject of our thoughts is unaware of it - or at least is not a telepath. See what happens when the rich heir to a corporate throne happens to be telepathic and responds to the vivid fantasies and sentiments of an office lady working for the company.
- Prize winning journalist, Michiko Takamine receives an autobiographical manuscript from recent suicide victim Sakiko, the daughter of imprisoned serial killer Fujiko. Before publishing the manuscript, Michiko seeks to interview Fujiko in prison to determine its validity. This story of murder and intrigue goes much deeper then Michiko envisioned and has a unique family twist.
- Hiroshi Kokusho was an ace of his high school's rugby club and used to receive attention all over the country. However, his aggressive play and selfishness got himself injured and he had no choice but to retire. Hiroshi got a job and lived alone after graduating from high school. However, a fight caused him to get fired from his job and he got kicked out from his apartment. A man then approached Hiroshi and said that he will introduce him to a perfect job which turned out to be the "Japan Ground Self-Defense Force" that protects the country's peace and security. Hiroshi, who used to be an immature man, got enlisted and became a full-fledged self-defense officer while wearing the combat helmet.
- Hayako Tatsuki is an elementary school gym teacher. Always cheerful, big-hearted and open-minded by nature, she comes off as a wonderful woman with no flaws, but she also has goofy, quirky side to her and likes to be silly with kids. She's generally content with her life, but as far as her love life is concerned, Hayako is rather indifferent: she just vaguely hopes to eventually get married someday with someone that she loves. However, after her father is hospitalized, she starts to think seriously about finding a partner for herself and decides to take steps towards getting married.
- She was the best crime fighter on the force...until a powerful conspiracy turned everyone against her.
- An extraordinary teacher, Naomi Todo, is hired by a school undergoing reforms to be the teacher-in-charge of a problematic class. With her very unusual way of teaching, she changed her students and influenced her colleagues, including two other faculty members named Naomi: Naomi Kai and Naomi Yashiro.
- A genius physician with the ability to foresee which of his patients will commit crimes in the future works with a detective to ensure the crimes never occur.
- Three high school students decide to challenge the legendary surf at Shonan Beach.
- Based on a true story. Kyoko Mochizuki is an 18 year old girl who dreams of becoming a police dog trainer. Kyoko is then admitted to a police dog training school and meets a young Labrador Retriever puppy named Kinako. An instructor at the training school informs Kyoko that Kinako is too weak to become a police dog, but Kyoko, charmed by the puppy, tells him she will make Kinako into a police dog.
- Set after WW II, "Wagaya no Rekishi" (The History of Our Family) follows the Yame family and its 7 members over the next two decades. The drama will provide a mixture of laughter, romance, drama, and suspense.
- Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue.
- Tooru Igarashi is a lecturer with charisma, working at a prestigious preparatory school. Recently, he drinks a lot and his life falls apart. Maki Endo is a student at a part-time high school. Every day, she is exhausted with working multiple jobs to cover her expenses. One day, Tooru and Maki happen to meet each other. Maki wants to graduate high school to get a regular job and asks Tooru to tutor her for her test-retest. After Tooru quit his prep school job, he has lost his pride and passion to teach. Tooru was also diagnosed to have only a year left to live. He decides to teach Maki and get her into the University of Tokyo.
- Naoki of Body Healing TOKYO, a beauty salon that offers hand massages to relieve fatigue and provide healing, relaxes the bodies and minds of various female customers, including office workers, housewives, nurses, high school girls, and cabaret girls, and raises them to heaven.