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A man who used to work as a bodyguard now works as a security guard at a construction site due to an incident. The company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division and he then starts to work again there as a novice bodyguard.

Follows Kouichi Miyazawa, who runs a small but long-established company.

Hiromi Harashima (Yoko Maki) works at the headquarters of a bank. She has a strong sense of justice. Due to her personality, she causes an incident which leads her to get transferred to a branch office. She begins to work as the sales division manager there. The branch office suffers from poor financial performance. Hiromi Harashima struggles to restore the branch office.

Working at a bank, Tetsuo Kashimura enjoys a smooth life. Things change when the bank he works for merges with another bank. His life becomes more difficult. His colleagues resign from work and Tetsuo also quits his job. While looking for a new job, he meets Tomoya Yamamoto the CEO of an investment company. Tomoya talks to him about restoring a restaurant franchise company.

A young woman (Tachibana Fukuko) tries to survive tough times in Osaka with her husband from before WWII to the rapid economic development era. Together they overcome various setbacks before they succeed in creating instant noodles. Based on the true story of the wife of Ando Momofuku, the businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd. and the inventor of instant ramen.

Wataru Akitsu is the manager of the Toyama branch of Maruo Holdings, an established major supermarket chain. He is demoted as a result of some incident and moves to the countryside with his family. However, one day, Wataru is recalled to headquarters as the head of the compliance unit. The CEO and board members have hidden ulterior motives. Various harassment issues happen within the company. Wataru solves them with novel ideas and methods.

Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher at the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory left by his father.

Corporate executive demoted to manage factory's failing rugby team despite lack of rugby knowledge, striving to rebuild it as a powerhouse to regain standing.

Hiroshi Kataoka (Masaharu Fukuyama) works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down and he does not have to work hard. After the branch's shutdown, he will work again at the bank's headquarters. Hiroshi Kataoka is embarrassed by the situation. He sees the branch employees work hard and they do not know the branch will close. Hiroshi Kataoka is conflicted between his job and his employees.

Hotshot assistant inspector of police Reiko is only twenty seven, but leads her Tokyo-based unit with confidence and rigour. She has a good track record and often underestimated, but her team trusts her. Her detectives are a mixture of the veteran and rookie. A corpse is discovered in Tokyo and Reiko and her men are assigned to the case.

In Osaka, Sayoko Takeuchi indulges in her evil ways. She targets old wealthy men and marries them for future inheritances. She works with Toru Kashiwagi who runs a marriage agency. Sayoko is married to a wealthy elderly man. One day, Tomomi Nakase hears her father was taken to the hospital. She rushes to the hospital and learns her father is unconscious. She also hears for the first time that her father is married to Sayoko. Tomomi takes the first steps in stopping Sayoko from gaining her father's fortune. She hires private detective Yoshinori Honda to investigate Sayoko and Toru.

Set in a small restaurant open only after midnight. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, who come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish they request.

An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent. Resolutions are often facilitated by the owner/chef.

This drama depicts the harsh reality of those at the bottom of society through the eyes of the loan shark Ushijima. He is the head of Kaukau Finance which is a ruthless black market lending operation, charging as much as 50% interest every ten days.

Follows the story of Toru Muranishi's unusual and dramatic life filled with big ambitions as well as spectacular setbacks in his attempt to turn Japan's porn industry on its head.

In their new positions as internal bank inspectors, an old geezer is partnered with a woman who never hesitates to speak up when witnessing wrongdoing.

In the past six months, Nagata Kazuo has been told that he is being laid off, his wife Miyoko wants divorce and their son Hiroki will not stop violence at home. And in Kazuo's heart is an antagonism with his father Tadao who has terminal cancer. As Kazuo sits on a bench in front of a train station wondering where he has gone wrong, a wine-colored wagon suddenly appears. The person driving it is Hashimoto Yoshiaki who should have died five years ago. His son Kenta riding with him should be dead too. Kazuo boards this mysterious wagon with the two of them and in the course of going round to important places of the past, he starts to realize what went wrong with his wife and son.

Tanaka Tamako had been working for a male-dominated restaurant business but was betrayed by her boyfriend who was hired as the chef. In addition, she is taken to the police as a result of an incident she caused because her friend Fujimura Satsuki was subjected to sexual harassment. Tamako resigns from her unreasonable company and starts a bistro selling homemade pot-au-feu on a rooftop in an alley in Jingumae, Tokyo. This is the story of females who are labeled "write-offs" and the restaurant they have established in order for them to get out from life's abyss. They battle difficulties and search for ways to change their lives as they experience the joys of work. This is a problem restaurant because they are all females with problems, but it is certainly not lousy. The women who have a common enemy - men, and the restaurant unites them in a fight to the death.

The story begins with an inventor and entrepreneur's suicide. Despite his company being on the brink of a breakthrough he is out of money and out of time. All is lost. His son vows to put things right, but he first has to pick himself up and that is not a simple concern.

A solitary businessman travels across Japan, eating at its various establishments and experiencing the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Kohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor who possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have.

Hosokawa Mitsuru is the company president of Aoshima Manufacturing, a medium-sized precision instrument maker caught in a crisis of survival due to the recession and intense competition with other companies in the industry. Hosokawa joined Aoshima Manufacturing mid-career. His ability was appreciated by the founder and chairman, Aoshima Tsuyoshi and he became the president through an unprecedented promotion. However, Hosokawa's promotion over all other executives who have been at Aoshima Manufacturing all their lives is greatly criticised by the people in the company. Shortly after he assumed his post, the world is plunged into a recession which has its roots in a financial crisis, and Aoshima Manufacturing is no exception. Its business falters. Hosokawa has to face the ordeal of betting on the company's survival as its president. How will he overcome life's greatest predicament?