Mari Hayashida

A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.

In the sixth installment of Taisho Roman Tanteitan, Kai Todo, "the Japanese Sherlock Holmes," takes on a serial murder case.

A detective is asked by a young woman to investigate a stalker. As the investigation proceeds, a suspect who has been persistently and repeatedly...

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

Two immortals and a woman who repeats re-encarnations, are caught in a curse that has over a thousand years. They meet every 100 years. Sosuke...

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s...

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are...

Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...

A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them.

Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s...

Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his...

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which...

Junior high schoolers Sudo Ai and Sosuke Ito live together as a patchwork family in a small town in Hokkaido, all thanks to Ai’s mother, Yumi,...

The four actors gathered in the studio spent three days rehearsing their 30-page script. They were told they would perform onstage on the fourth day....

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s...