Tasuku Nagaoka

After giving up on his career as a musician, Matsumoto spends his days as an editor of OPSY, a music magazine specializing in body modification counterculture such as implants, split tongues, and the like. One day, on the company president’s orders, he makes his way to a concert by a production company-promoted band, The PEACH BOYS. However, due to how awful it is, he despairs of his life as an editor, bemoaning “what a waste of time.” After the show, he is introduced to another band by the manager. He has a shocking encounter with THE COLLECTED FREAKS, a band that burst onto the scene suddenly and without warning, unlike any other on earth. And then, “in order to love himself”, Matsumoto makes a certain decision…

With the release of Uesugi Yoshitake approaching, the Toyokai receives an assassination threat against him. The leadership raises security, while Munakata Seizo restructures his group—naming Sakai Atsushi as underboss and Murata Kunio as his aide. Meanwhile, Sawamura Ryuichi and Soma Kunihito try to settle a dispute involving old comrades, but…

The Toyokai leadership fends off attackers, but the assailants’ identity and motives remain unclear. Suspecting the rival Teito Union, Uesugi grows wary. Assigned to Uesugi’s crew, Soma digs into their networks—uncovering traces of former Teito members like Sudo Reiji, who has fled overseas.

Sana Ikegami (Yuri Nakamura), 38, who works as the editor-in-chief of a popular magazine, prioritizes her work and her own time over romance. She has a perfect routine for machine pilates, a particular diet, supplements, and beauty treatments, and relieves her loneliness with a sex friend...she leads a fulfilling life. [Episode 6 of the miniseries "The Borderline Between Friends with Benefits and Lovers"]

Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying that she's a huge fan of his work and aiming to be a scriptwriter herself. Overcome by her enthusiasm, he agrees to take her in. As they work together, he begins to sense her talent as a writer, and at the same time, comes to feel sexually attracted towards her. Soon he's writing scripts that he's proud of again, and begins to feel fulfilled in both his private and work lives. But it doesn't take long before he learns about her boyfriend and fellow scriptwriter Hideo Tanaka (20). He becomes madly jealous, but.

With Munakata Seizo as boss, Sawamura Ryuichi and Soma Kunihito establish the Munakata-gumi under the banner of Resshikai. Soon after, Shindo-gumi’s Shimaki, carrying the missing ransom money, shows up at Munakata’s ramen shop. Meanwhile in Kyushu, Shindo-gumi schemes with the infamous Moji family for profit.

Through Shindo-gumi’s maneuvering, Amano Shuji is abducted by the Moji family—along with his daughter Mari. Their ally Shimaki, revealed to be secretly tied to Shindo-gumi, claims he was working as a double agent. He then plants a hidden mic before meeting Shindo-gumi’s Onoue Tatsuhiko.

As men and women around the age of 30 struggle to reach their dreams, they also go through trial and error in love. This work, which depicts the encounter and parting of such a man and woman.

When they find out their community is plagued by debt, three high schoolers in an old country town set out in search of some ancient buried treasure.

Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music very much. However, Riko is not doing well, and she finally decides to disband the orchestra after 18 years of operation. She plans to hold the last farewell concert...