Yuichi Yamada works as a magazine editor. He has recently transferred to Kyoto from Tokyo. In Kyoto, he comes across a French couple who are lost. Yuichi Yamada doesn't speak French and ask for help from nearby tobacco shop owner Yoriko Shindo. Yoriko Shindo speaks French fluently and she is able to help the couple. Meanwhile, Yuichi Yamada takes an interest in Yoriko Shindo.
Kanjani8 no Janiben is a Japanese TV show hosted by the members of the group Kanjani8. The show began airing on May 2, 2007, and is broadcast every Wednesday night on Kansai TV from 0:35 AM to 1:30 AM.
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?
Emiru Yoshitsune is a 22-years-old who has just started working as a case worker to poor people needing public assistance. She has no knowledge about the social welfare system and struggles to carry out her work. One day, a man who she is assigned to help commits suicide. (Source: MDL)
A mysterious man Shomei Abeno opens a fortune telling shop in a quiet neighbourhood. However, residents of the area wonders if he is just a regular con man with something to hide.
When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.
The program introduces the history of passageways, trails, or trade routes in various parts of Japan. It delves into the feelings of the predecessors hidden within those roads, the traditions that have been continuously preserved, the craftsmanship that have been passed down, and stories they want to convey to future generations.
An almanac of stories, each of which begins with a black cat leading a troubled/lost person to one of Ginza's well-known stores that suits him/her, brightening up the person’s life a little in the process. Through this black cat, shops and people get connected.
Two men, torn by the moral dilemma of uncovering others' secrets for justice, work to solve unsolved cases using special MRI technology that can reproduce living memories of the dead.
One night, Manda Ginjiro a moneylender in the Minami district of Osaka, hears a gunshot echoing in an alleyway. The shooter is Yojiro Todoroki , one of Ginjiro's clients. Todoroki entrusts Ginjiro with his notebook, which he has been holding onto with great care, and runs out of steam. From that day on, a suspicious shadow begins to haunt Ginjiro. According to Hideo Sawaki, a bigwig in Minami, an organization is trying to kill Ginjiro.
Manda Ginjiro, a moneylender in Minami, is reunited by chance with Harumi, the woman who once saved his life. Harumi and her childhood friend Shimamoto had saved him from being attacked by hoodlums when he was 17 years old, when Ginjiro was busy fighting. According to Harumi, Shimamoto is active as a human rights lawyer who helps the weak...