20-year-old Olya is not an easy character. Friends say that Olya is evil. Olya goes to a psychologist and in sessions with him tries to give his anger a place, to release anger. She tells the psychologist about all the people who infuriate her, and wishes them death in terrible agony. A teacher at the institute, best friend, boyfriend, father, mother… They all annoy Olga very much. And suddenly they all start dying one by one under mysterious circumstances.
Prayer Beads, also called "omoinotama" or "nunju" in Japanese, are the small wooden beads strung on a loop used in Buddhist worship. The number of beads is typically 108, corresponding to the 108 earthly desires or sins that the beads have the power to extinguish. "Prayer Beads" is a series of 9 episodes of 30-minute dramas strung together, with the characters in each episode designing one thread of fate. The short independent episodes are skillfully linked together to become one story. The protagonists' dreams and fears and feelings about this life are all taken up and spun around to reach a dramatic conclusion in the final story.
Kiyoka Kuromi, a housekeeper with a hidden agenda, is determined to create the "ideal family" at any cost. Assigned to the seemingly perfect Haibara family, she quickly bonds with them, but her obsession drives her to take increasingly extreme and unethical actions in her pursuit of perfection.
A wealthy and influential family hires Katya as a nurse for a dying father. Most unexpectedly, the young woman becomes his closest confidant and the only person in his life whom he can trust. Passions run high around Katya as a huge inheritance is at stake. From a modest nurse, whose only task was to care for the sick in the last days of his life, Katya involuntarily turns into an active participant of the family drama with all its hopes, fights and disillusions. It turns out that the seemingly happy and tight-knit family has its skeletons in the closet, and these secrets can come at a price of a human life.
The protagonist, Nozomi, was on the peak of happiness after conceiving a child with her husband, Ryoichi, but she was involved in an accident whilst on holiday.
When she next awoke, she was told that the baby she was carrying had been stillborn, and that four years had passed.
The story takes place on a quiet peninsula away from Buenos Aires, where more than the first generation of Russian Old Believers live, preserving their language, faith and way of life. The main characters are real opposites: she is an Old Believer who lives by the rules of the community, and he is a policeman, an emigrant from Russia, who knows no mercy for criminals. They were not destined to meet, but their paths crossed…
In an all-boys school, a class of 12th grade students are in disbelief after doing a seance that revealed the presence of a ghost lurking among them. Soon their doubt turns into suspicion as the class runs into eerie events that compel them to deduce the ghost's identity.
A detective jumps to 30 years into future while chasing a killer through a tunnel. The murders which stopped 30 years ago are going to start again. Can the detective find the killer and return to his original time or is he going to lose more people in the chase of cat and mouse?
It's merry times in the medieval offices of iBlade, Incorporated -- demand for their immortal-slaying swords has never been higher! But as a big promotion looms, tenacious engineer Russ stumbles into a plot that may very well destroy the entire company.
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present.
The second adaptation of Alexandra Marinina's novels - "I died yesterday", "The stolen dream", "Men's games", "Everything must be paid for." Criminal investigation officer Anastasia Kamenskaya is able to calculate the criminal by the most insignificant details of his actions, character, psychology.
A talented perfumer, Gu Ying Ying, is on the path of revenge when she meets Han Yichen, the only son of the president of the Han family. He was in a car accident and became colorblind, while her unique perfume could restore his optic nerve, they fell in love.
A seemingly happy marriage with a dark tide ...... The truth about family and love will be revealed.
While protecting a bride-to-be, Yue Ziyuan discovers her growing feelings for the groom, Yang Xiao. Forced to work together to revive the merchant roads and solve their parents’ murders, the two navigate danger, duty, and an unexpected romance.
There's a killer stalking the mean streets, but instead of targeting the poor and downtrodden like Jack the Ripper, The Widow is meting out justice against the rich and powerful.