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Kageri Yuku Natsu
In 1995, a newborn baby was kidnapped at Yokosuka Keiyokai Hospital. The criminal demanded a ransom of 100 million yen from the
director of the hospital instead of the baby’s parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. 20 years on, a major newspaper, Tozai Shimbun, has informally decided to employ a female university student, Asakura Hiroko, because of her excellent results.
However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is actually the daughter of the criminal in the kidnapping case. The human resource manager, Muto Seiichi, protects Hiroko in every way possible and does everything he can to bring her on board.
Meanwhile, Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has been relegated to a marginal employee in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the company president, Sugino Junichi, to re-investigate the kidnapping case. When he visits the people involved in the case at that time and interviews them one after another, an unexpected suspicion surfaces. He begins to dig up the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.
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Yoriko Yabushita (Anne Watanabe) works at a Yokohama research laboratory. She tracks trends in relation to macroeconomics. She is 29-years-old
and enthusiastic about her work. She also enjoys efficiency and having a regular life. Although she doesn't excel in social settings with other people, her next goal is getting married and having a baby. Yoriko believes that she marry by the age of 30, because everyone around her did including her late mother. If Yoriko finds a man who fills 24 items listed on her ideal husband list, she will marry him
Meanwhile, Takumi Taniguchi (Hiroki Hasegawa) is 35-years-old and unemployed. He did graduate from college, but he spends his days reading books and listening to music. He's not interested in dating or getting married, because he knows he lacks a source of income. He lives with his mother and knows that when she passes away, he can't continue his current lifestyle. Takumi Taniguchi then decides to find a woman who is capable of supporting him financially.
Yoriko Yabushita and Takumi Taniguchi, who both think of marriage as a contract, begin to date with the goal of getting married.
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Second Love
Kei (Kazuya Kamenashi) is a contemporary dancer. He keeps taking auditions for foreign dance companies, while working part-time jobs. Although talented, Kei has yet to pass an audition.
One the day he learns has a failed another audition, Kei becomes depressed and feels like he wants to die. He then sees Yui Nishihara (Kyoko Fukada). Kei is captivated by her.
Yui is in her 30's and a teacher at prestigious female high school. She is having an affair with a colleague who has a wife and a child. She isn't happy with her situation. Not knowing that Kei is looking at her, she walks across a passage connecting two buildings at her school.