Maika, a pregnant woman, is running along a farm road at night with nothing but her clothes on her back. Her beaten face is discolored, one eye is swollen, and she is bleeding from the edge of her mouth. The headlights of a car approaching from behind frightens Maika, and she loses her balance and falls. Just as she is about to get up, her cell phone rings. It's a call from Masayoshi, her abusive husband. Out of fear, Maika knocks the phone to the ground and breaks it. Slowly, she picks herself up and continues walking down the street at night. She arrives at a love hotel hidden in the suburbs of a provincial city.
The drama portrays the lives of two young men, Kaneko Ryū (played by Hōshi Ishida) and Sudō Kazutora (played by Yūtarō Furutachi). Ryū is a man who stakes his life on being a yakuza, while Kazutora despises the yakuza and seeks to surpass his father.
Misaki lives in a rural town situated among lush, green mountains beneath a clear blue sky. Despite graduating from a university in Tokyo, she was unable to find the job she hoped for due to the lack of employment opportunities that befell her generation. Just about everything has gone badly for her and now she is on the verge of turning 40. However, she has dreams of marrying her aging, handicapped mother Mitsuko's care worker, Naoki, who pays visits to their home. Her clandestine meetings with Naoki are one of Misaki's oases from Mitsuko's harsh day-to-day verbal abuse. The other is the bee farm run by her childhood friend Kaori. The honey Kaori diligently works to make is sweet, mild, and soothing. But then Misaki is cruelly betrayed by Naoki. And Kaori abruptly dies. These events drive Misaki's heart to the brink of bursting. "Why did she have to die? "
An omnibus drama based on short stories by Ryo Asai, who won the 22nd Novel Subaru Rookie Award for The Kirishima Thing and the 148th Naoki 35 Award for SOMEONE.
Follows Satoru, a successful businessman who relinquishes everything to pursue his true calling: the happiness of humankind.
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Shunsuke Kubozuka (窪塚俊介 Kubozuka Shunsuke, born 6 November 1981) is a Japanese actor known for his roles in Saishû heiki kanojo (2005), Kyoufu-izonsho (2006) and Furyou shounen: 3,000-nin no atama (2012). He has two brothers, Yosuke Kubozuka is also an actor, and RUEED is a musician.
