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Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who wanders from hospital to hospital because the harsh environment led many doctors to retire. However, Michiko doesn't look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.

An unassuming office lady decides to finally get the relationship experience she lacks. But dating means dealing with men and her inner struggles.

A 14 year old girl wishes to become a successful artist in order to impress the boy of her dreams who is a professional singer.

Akari Fujisaki ends up working at a female escort agency known as Paradiso. Despite having reservations about the industry at first, Akari gradually becomes aware of the worries and issues faced by the women who use such services.

Music Fair aired weekly on Fuji Television from 31 August 1964 to the present day and it has been loved by fans throughout the years. In fact, the show has been aired over 2,400 times thus far, in over 48 years, so it is the longest-running Japanese music show.

Nitobe and Sakamoto are friends from childhood who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. Nor do any of the lives out of it for that matter. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. With crustaceans as leitmotif, the themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters'lives.

Kuroyanagi Tetsuko became NHK's first television actress in 1953 (Showa 28), which was the start of television broadcasting. She has brought laughter and tears to TV viewers and many people have supported her since the beginning of the television age when dramas were live until today.

Kotone Kamiwatari, a Kyoto geisha of many mysteries, gets drunk one night and finds herself framed for the murder of a fellow geisha. She ends up in a women's prison, where she gets bullied and even has her life targeted by female inmates including a cross-dressing political secretary who has committed crime, a single mother who murdered her abusive husband, a wife who committed a series of murders for inheritance, a nurse who underwent plastic surgery from head to toe and killed patients after an affair, an older woman who snapped under the weight of caring for her husband; and the prison's number one informant. Kotone survives this through her wiles. But why was she set up?

When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment. This is what they call a 'white company.' Instead, she is in for a rude shock when the employer turns out to be a 'black company,' which is one with a negative environment, a rude boss, problematic co-workers, abuse and low pay. The employee's father runs a company that happens to go broke. She herself is not a model employee exactly however.

Yosuke Shintani left his hometown right after his high school graduation. He wanted to leave behind memories of his older brother who died in an accident and a teacher who was bad to the students. Now, Yosuke is back in his hometown due to a personnel transfer at his work. He decides to attend a school reunion and meets three friends from his high school days. Yosuke and the three friends kidnap their ex-teacher who punished the students with physical force. They beat him up and leave him there. Yosuke and his three friends thought it was a joke, but the teacher is found dead the next day.

Nakaido and Majima are a cop and a prosecutor respectively in the city of Yokohama just south of Tokyo. They have regional responsibilities. Nakaido is a hard-nosed cops who employs ruthless procedure to his work. He works hard. Majima drives hard to get maximum sentences and , in his mind, exact a degree of revenge. The two strive for one goal, which is do the right thing for their offices, the victims and prevention of future crimes.

Featuring Morning Musume, Abe Natsumi, Iida Kaori, Yasuda Kei, Goto Maki, Yoshizawa Hitomi, V-U-den, Matsuura Aya, Berryz Kobo, and Cute, with special guest Ishino Mako.