Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.

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Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her...

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Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

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In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...

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Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...

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An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...