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.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

> Story 1: "Missing" > Story 2: "Miss Ringo" (ミスりんご) > Story 3: "Tea Brewer" (お茶をつぐ) Raita is a d...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

27-year-old Eto Kana lives in Tokyo and has never been out of the city before. She used to work as a...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....