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In 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, having many mistresses and children and showing no respect to anybody. Later he closes the factory, lending the money with high interests and becoming a loan shark. His hatred behavior remains until his last breath, alone in North Korea.

A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails. - This is the beginning of her new life.

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

A salaryman dies at his office suddenly, but can live on and meet his family albeit as a beautiful woman for three days. He didn't want to die just like that. He asked the officials in afterlife whether he can spend time with his family before definitively moving on. He will come back, but has a reprieve as a female for that limited time.

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Manabu Yazaki (Yusuke Iseya) lost his business and wife in Tokyo after the dot com crash. He returns to his hometown in Hokkaido during the middle of winter. Manabu Yazaki then takes the advice from a man and bets everything he has on a horse named Unryu. The horse loses. With nowhere else to go Manabu Yazaki turns to his older brother Takeo (Koichi Sato) who runs a horse stable and trains Unryu.Takeo, sensing his brother's troubles, reluctantly allows his younger brother to stay, but only if he he takes up a job at the stable.

A middle school teacher falls in love with a hostess and they end up quickly getting engaged and moving in together.

A newspaper editor (played by Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.

Is it more important for you to remember them or for people to remember you? Two men, one younger and the other older, take a car from Tokyo to the far south of Kyushu all the while experiencing mental problems and challenges. Yet, they are in it together and lend each other courage even as their world goes topsy-turvy.

Two brothers are separated as young boys and vow not to cry at their separation. They are unknowingly reunited as adults thanks to fate. Find laughter through the tears.

A drama about a complex relationship between father and son.

Go Ayano plays Kazunari Mizusawa, a young photographer gathering pictures of girls in Shibuya for a documentary. Suddenly the constant noise of the bustling crowd is drowned out by a high school girl (Aimi Satsukawa) shrieking in anger. Mizusawa is startled, but also confused by the fact that nobody in the area but him seemed to care or even notice. His fascination with figuring out exactly what makes young girls want to come to Shibuya in the first place makes him determined to find out more about her.