武诚治（二宫和也 饰）毕业于三流大学，文凭平平，工作经验平平。在公司工作了三个月后，因为无法适应上班的生活，毅然决定辞掉工作。治觉得自己应该可以找到工资更高，待遇更好的工作，但现实却是处处碰壁，只能打点散工，且总是做不长。治的父亲（竹中直人 饰）觉得治很不上进，父子关系急剧恶化。某一天，一直体谅治，温柔的母亲（浅野温子 饰）突然昏倒，结果被检查出患了忧郁症。这个给治的冲击很大，在经过一番考虑后，治为自己确立了目标，即使是打工，也要为母亲买新房。 在打工的工地上，治结识了性格爽朗的千叶真奈美（香里奈 饰）。真奈美的志向是成为一名桥梁设计师，充满干劲的真奈美给了治很多建议。但打工买房赚钱之路困难重重，治能否克服万难，实现自己的梦想。

山田太郎（二宫和也 饰），相貌英俊，品学兼优，笑容灿烂，为人和善。这样的他浑身都散发出一股贵族般的气息，令班上的女生为之倾倒。尤其是池上隆子（多部末华子 饰），这个做梦都想钓到金龟婿的的女孩，更是下定决心不泡到山田君誓不罢休。但是一次跟踪让隆子的美梦彻底的破碎了，原来山田太郎不仅不是有钱人，甚至连普通人都算不上，他住在自家搭建的违建里，还有六个和他一样穷的叮当响的弟妹！山田太郎的朋友御村托也（樱井翔 饰）倒是个贵公子，他十分喜欢山田太郎朴实的性格，也喜欢看班上的白痴女生被她们的幻觉耍得团团转的样子，因此，他希望隆子能够保守这个秘密，甚至不惜使出威逼利诱的手段。 杉浦圭一（忍成修吾 饰）非常看不过山田太郎的完美作风，同时也对他的超高人气心怀妒忌。一次偶然的事件让他对山田太郎的真实身份产生了怀疑，但随着对他的了解，圭一悲剧的发现自己居然对同样是男性的山田太郎产生了异样的感情。

Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.

1993年，以“林氏盖饭”做招牌菜的饭店里有着幸福的一家，这晚三个孩子偷偷出去看流星躲过了灭门的惨案，当他们回来时发现父母已被刺杀身亡。 到了2008年，大哥有明功一（二宫和也 Kazunari Ninomiya 饰）在一家料理店打工，却不肯为客人再做一次家传的“林氏盖饭”；二弟泰辅（锦户亮 Ryo Nishikido 饰）和妹妹静奈（户田惠梨香 Erika Toda 饰）在东京共租一个房间。三人的生活都有点吊儿郎当，是当年惨案以及相依为命成长的童年的后遗症。眼看到11月就会过了案件诉讼期了，他们三兄妹立誓一定要把当年杀害父母的凶手抓出来。 他们没想到，最大的误算来自于妹妹的恋爱。

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.