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- Three sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
- A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
- A never-lose lawyer, Kensuke Komikado, uses his way and understanding of the spirit of the law to win every case on the court of law.
- A dramatic yet heart-warming story of cross-cultural friendship among children in the aftermath of WWII, presented by Tokyo-based award-winning animation studio Production I.G. Based on true events.
- Tokita Mayuko who was majored in textile technology moved to Tokyo and finally found a job in Ginza. Mayuko's dream is to develop new kinds of fabric, but she ends up working in a handmade luxury lingerie atelier called Emotion.
- In a world where people are discriminated based on their birthplace, a resident of the much-reviled Saitama Prefecture embarks on a revolutionary campaign to improve things for his home.
- Tamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline and regimen, but following the former's death the daughter had felt free by quitting the sport and instead leading an ordinary life. One of her co-workers Akihiko asks her to go steady one day, but soon sleeps with a pretty co-worker called Airi. Having lost her chance with this man she quits her job and returns to her hometown. Here her mother once owned a ping pong club. At the same time, the man she lost has joined the company's ping pong club prompting her to want to beat him. She begins to practice again.
- On the way to India to get some holy scrolls, priest Tripitaka and his followers are led by Monkey and implored by a princess to protect her people from a warlord and his brother. They've taken control of the palace and its riches and turned the royal family into terrapin tortoises. Monkey and co must defeat the evil warlords.
- An adaptation of Higashino Keigo's sixth novel in the popular Galileo series. Professor Yukawa Manabu must solve the mysteries of seemingly accidental death of another guest at the countryside motel he was spending his vacation in.
- It's time for the final challenge of the Liar Game. Only Akiyama and Fukunaga had earned tickets to participate, but when Yokoya decides to drop out, Nao gets invited to join. Unwilling at first, but when her worry over Akiyama soon overcomes her reluctance. In the final stage, nicknamed the Garden of Eden, a new voting game is set to take place. The game is set up so that all players can win money should they cooperate, but if they don't one player will win big while the others face bigger debts than ever before. It doesn't take long for the lies and backstabbing to begin, and the question remains whether Nao and Akiyama have any hope of winning and finally shut down the Liar Game for good.
- When Kaoru Inoue (Junichi Okada) opposes Soichiro Ogata (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Soichiro makes the cryptic remark "It couldn't be helped. It was for a greater cause ..." One month later, at an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto (Yoko Maki), Takahumi Yamamoto (Satoru Matsuo) and Mitsuo Ishida (Yu Kamio). Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since. Inside the event hall, Kaoru Inoue replies to Ogata calls that everything is fine. The Secretary of Japan then appears on stage and Inoue again senses a threatening existence. Kaoru has a premonition of what will happen in the future. Right after, Kaoru finds a man in a suit holding an umbrella, even though the weather is clear, and starts running towards him. The man approaches the stage and Kaoru is blocked from reaching him by other spectators. Kaoru Inoue warns Eri Sasamoto about the man. As the man attempts to push a button on the umbrella, Kaoru and Eri are able to restrain him and take the umbrella away. The man slips away and runs off. Kaoru Inoue chases the man to the center of the city and arrests him near the subway platform. The chase was covered by the media. The chief of SP, Yoshiharu Nakao (Shingo Egami), later stares down at Kaoru and tells him a pipe bomb was discovered in the umbrella which could have caused severe damage. Prime Minister Yuzou Asada (Kei Yamamoto) and other higher government officials gave Inoue favorable reviews, but Kaoru, nevertheless, crossed proper protocols and should refrain from such excessive behavior in the future. That evening, a campaign fund raising event is held in support of of Secretary General Kunio Date (Teruyuki Kagawa). After the fund raising event, the secretary for the Ministry of Defense Takikawa (Takehiro Hira), who was a member of the same university political club that Soichiro Ogata attended at Tokyo University, chief international terror agent at the Ministiry of Foreign Affairs Anzai (Kazuki Namioka), Metropolitan Police Department member Mitsuhiko Kaziyama (Satoru Date) and Soichiro Ogata gather together in a suite room of the hotel with Kunio Date. There Takikawa tells Soichiro Ogata that its time to perform the plan. Takikawa affirm that the soft landing way pushed by Yuji Nishijima (Kisuke Iida) will not be effective to build up the country. Anzai insists a crisis is needed to change people's values. Kunio Date promises to support them and orders Soichiro Ogata to carry out their plan. Around that time, Ichiro Tanaka (Toru Nomaguchi) investigates the relationships between Kunio Date, Kunio Date, Kaziyama and the suicide of government official Yuji Nishijima. A few days later, Soichiro Ogata calls Kaoru Inoue at night to the meet at the park. The park was the same place where tragedy met Kaoru Inoue's parents some twenty years ago. Soichiro Ogata begins to tell a shocking truth, while Kaoru Inoue can't understand his intentions. The next day Soichiro Ogata assigns to Security Police officer in the #4 Security Section an assignment to guard Kunio Date. After guarding Kunio Date that night, the terrorist plot finally begins attacking Kaoru Inoue and his colleagues.
- Ryoichi Kimizuka's riveting exploration of the Japanese media's feeding frenzy focuses on a15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her brother is arrested for murder. It plays out like a propulsive edge-of-your-seat thriller that's sure to leave you breathless.
- Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker, finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
- Ichitaro is a young man with weak health who has the power to see ghosts. Since the age of five, he has become friends with them, and works with them to solve mysterious incidents.
- An obscure rock singer discovers that one of her songs was made into a big hit by a popular TV songstress. She tries to bring a lawsuit against her.
- A woman is taken from her wedding ceremony by a man who is either a kidnapper or a former boyfriend. A woman is ejected from a baseball game for her offensive jeering. These are the two court cases for the two-man law firm. At the same time the ace lawyer of the firm is the subject of a documentary.
- When the modest residents of the area are confronted with a breach of trust by a large developer which has begun construction in the middle of their neighbourhood against its promise they have no choice but to sue. Unfortunately, the greedy corporation and its lawyer do not care that it will block the sunlight and dreams of the residents . A bigger opponent, however, may be the residents themselves.
- Lawyer Komikado is assigned to defend a corrupt politician against charges of bribery.
- The "ideal Japanese couple" hate each other, and sue for divorce.
- The head of a Soy Sauce company dies. The heirs dispute who is to take over the company.
- A very popular and precocious child actress decides to sue her mother as a way of breaking free from the pressure she feels. Her mother's defense lawyer turns out to be none other than Komikado's father, who is barely on speaking terms with him.
- A small farming community decide to sue the large chemical company that has built a site near them, which has apparently been polluting the area with toxic chemicals.
- The expensive legal team from Tokyo continues to represent the village folk whose watershed and lives have been ruined by the giant chemical company's fourth factory. The townspeople resolve to accept nothing less than a dismantling of the factory and five hundred million yen. The sides are not beyond employing dirty tricks, which have consequences beyond which side wins its case.
- As a continuation of an earlier episode where the law firm took on the giant chemical company the lawyers represent the dismissed chemical engineer, but not before a firm and a lawyer switch sides. Not only a few surprises pop up during the proceedings, but several other lawyers become involved as well.
- A gas station worker is fired. Soon afterwards, his boss is found murdered. Lawyer Komikado has to discover the truth, and uncovers irregular behavior by the police.