Rintaro Mizusawa

The school’s cool, prince-like heroine has never questioned her role—until a fellow “Prince” enters her life and sees her as more than a hero, awakening feelings she’s never faced before.

Bound by shared loneliness, Shinya and his classmate Yuka grow close while working on their school newspaper. But after a sudden incident, Yuka vanishes without a trace, leaving Shinya clinging to an unfulfilled promise. Thirty years later, long-buried truths about Yuka’s past finally surface, forcing Shinya to confront what was lost, and what remained unsaid.

"Tales of the Bizarre: 2024 Summer Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '24夏の特別編) aired on Fuji TV on June 8, 2024, featuring four intriguing stories: 1. "The Mansion of Remembrance" A woman awakens in a mysterious mansion after an accident, encountering residents with fragmented memories. 2. "Tomobiki Village" A university student visits a secluded village for a friend's funeral, uncovering eerie traditions and hidden truths. 3. "Treasure of Humanity" An artist is recruited by a global organization to preserve cultural heritage, leading to unexpected revelations about his talent. 4. "Weekly Ex-Lover Creation" A woman assembles an android replica of her ex-boyfriend using a magazine kit, blurring the lines between reality and artificiality.

The story begins with "Q-1 Grand Prix," a live television quiz show where contestants compete for a 10-million-yen prize. In the highly anticipated one-on-one buzzer final, an incident occurs during the last question. In the tense silence of the studio, Kizuna Honjo, facing off against the protagonist Mishima, slams the buzzer before a single letter of the question has been read—and somehow gives the correct answer. In any quiz, answering correctly with zero letters revealed should be impossible. So how is he able to answer correctly? As the mystery deepens, every viewer becomes a "participant" in the game.

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to stand up to change their school's black school rules so that Machida won’t have to repeat a year of school from missing too many classes.

From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.

Childhood friends Hinata and Hayato are training hard in kendo for their final high school inter-high school competition. One day, Hinata is scouted by an entertainment agency. This causes a rift in their relationship. The film depicts these two young boys who grow up to be adults while still carrying the pain & doubts from their youth.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when club activities were restricted, Japanese students launched an astronomical observation event called the "Star Catch Contest" via remote meetings. What began as a collaboration between students from Ibaraki, Tokyo, and Nagasaki's Goto Islands soon spread nationwide, leading to an unexpected miracle.

One day, college student Keiko, who is looking for a job, learns that the person she had feelings for has committed suicide. Keiko wonders if she was the cause of this. Classmate Mami, through her boyfriend Takuya, tries to introduce Keiko to Kazuo, a member of Takuya's theater company. However, Keiko, who met Takuya, has a special feeling for him. Miyata, a young man who seems to be hiding in the darkness of everyday life, meets Keiko one day.

From thugs to yakuza, Taiza Kujo wields the law to defend society's worst. Fellow lawyer, Karasuma doubts his ethics but joins him in facing the abyss.

"The world average age for the first sexual experience... 17.3". Is that early? Late? Seno Sakura has a serious personality. Hara Tsumugi has never liked a member of the opposite sex before. Minagawa Yuna is experienced and is currently dating a company employee. At the age of 17, the girl's "sexual values" begin to fluctuate.

A fierce struggle unfolds as a university team fights for a comeback in the Hakone Ekiden while TV producers battle behind the scenes to broadcast their story.

The story is set in the private senior high school Minami Gakuen which boasts of an unusually high proportion of good-looking students and aims to win at the National Ikemen Contest for senior high school students

When an ultra-elite high school enforces a strict "No Romance" rule that expels anyone caught dating, a student secretly helps her classmates for cash.

The mystery of how Kazama Kimichika became so ruthless and unmatched will be revealed. Kyojo Zero depicts the time before he was assigned to the police academy, when he was working as an instructor in charge of training new detectives...

Rei Kagami (Ryosuke Yamada) is a billionaire and the CEO of the leading conglomerate company Kagami Group. He is an extremely smart inventor, who has developed revolutionary products, and is now doing research on high precision AI. When he was little, he was a curious and kind kid. As he grew up, his curiosity remained, but he became self-centered. For certain reasons, he begins to teach at a school, while hiding his identity as a billionaire and the CEO of Kagami Group. His performance as a teacher is quite poor compared to his excellent work as a CEO. He is incapable of understanding the ordinary lives of the teachers and students around him.

May 31, 2021—as COVID-19 continued to spread, Masayasu Wakabayashi and Ryota Yamasato were on stage in front of an empty house getting ready for their live stream show. Although they’re from different comedy duos, The Nankai Candies and Audrey, they decided to create Tarinai Futari to perform new jokes about their complexes. Their final show is today.

Higashiyama Mitsuru is an alien who landed in Japan about 400 years ago and is currently hiding his identity and abilities by living as a university lecturer. Mitsuru is able to return back to his home star in three months time, but suddenly Sasahara Tsubaki, a top actress who is known to be a "troublemaker" moved to the condominium unit next to his and changed his life completely. What will happen between the two as Mitsuru slowly falls in love with Tsubaki just before he is about to return home?

After past breakups and unfulfilled romances leave novelist Ayana reluctant to truly fall in love, she tries to face her current relationship sincerely.

When Shizuka Urumi reluctantly works as a high school teacher and aims to keep her distance, her students provoke her to get involved in their lives.

Shiratama Sayako has never experienced much good luck. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect. She studied hard, but she repeatedly failed her university entrance exams. Now, she is 30 years old and works in a field far away from her ideal job. One day, she happens to meet mysterious university student Ogasawara Taku. She tells him about her past dream of becoming an architect. Ogasawara Taku tells her that it is never too late and that she can still get accepted into a university. Inspired by their talk, Shiratama Sayako decides to study once again for her university entrance exams. After she studies so hard, she finally gets accepted into a university. There, Shiratama Sayako meets Ogasawara Taku again, who is a senior in the architecture department.

Mihoshi Taiyo is the CEO of investment company Sunshine Fund and self-proclaimed human investor. He holds the belief that "Assets are people. No investor will dispose of their assets." Mihoshi Taiyo approaches people who are having difficulties in their personal lives or business career. He talks to them and proposes doing a start-up together, allowing them to dream again.

A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. His sister and her family also move in with the two, albeit temporarily. She sees him as a loser and a lush and wants him out. She also whispers in their mother's ear to ask him to leave the house in order to find his own way and begin the rest of his life. She probably has noble intentions, but is she right and will she succeed?

Nishina, Maya, Shiro, and Aoi are four good friends in their second year of high school with good looks but disappointing personalities. The four who decided that they will never fall in love, formed their own club, known as the "Muda-bu" (Useless Club), which focuses on researching silly themes and uploading them on social media. One day, they decided to do an experiment from a manga that says, "If you run with a piece of bread in your mouth and bump into someone, you will fall in love". While trying to conduct the experiment, they accidentally bumped into someone while having a piece of bread in the mouth.

The protagonist Hiroshi Kokusho was an ace rugby player in his high school days attracting national attention, but his forceful play led to an injury. Condemned by his teammates and becoming isolated, he retires. After graduation, he lives on his own but fails to get a regular job, living a dizzying, carefree, day-to-day life. One day, after getting involved in a fight leads to the point of getting the police involved, he is fired from his job at a construction site and is evicted from the apartment he lives in for nonpayment of rent, leaving him at complete loss. Then a man comes to him and says, “let me introduce a job that's perfect for you!” “A dormitory and three meals included! So perfect for your physical strength which you are so proud of!” The job is in fact at a “Ground Self-Defense Force” which protects the peace and security of the country…

A man in his forties is struggling with life and his career, until the 17-year-old daughter of his first love from 20 years ago appears unexpectedly. "I wanted to meet the man that my mom was in love with..." Bewildered by this encounter, he remembers the promise he made, but couldn’t keep, with his first love all those years ago... Maybe the problems he’s facing now are all linked to the mistakes of his past? Realizing that he’s emotionally shaken has after finally starting to confront his unfinished past, he begins opening doors he had previously thought were closed for good... When you’re midway through life, you stop and think... A touching drama about the importance of living honestly!

Kashi Kota, a third-year student at Hanayama High School, has spent his entire high school life trying to “stay out of sight, out of mind,” but after losing a game of “rock-paper-scissors”, he is forced to become a member of the choir competition committee.

Relationships take on many forms. Some can be fleeting, delicate things that only last a moment, while others are sure and steady and can last a lifetime. More often than not, relationships fall somewhere in between, but whatever the relationship, each one is as unique as the people in them. Take the eight different couples in this story, for example. While each of them ends up sharing a night, how that night looks and what comes the morning after is entirely different. For the man reunited with his former high school classmate, the feelings he has harbored all these years give their time together a very specific meaning. Meanwhile, an evening shared by two individuals who regularly hook up for sex takes on an entirely different one. No matter what their dynamic may be, each couple in this series has this in common: they each share a meal the morning after. The question is, where do things go between them, once they’ve finished their breakfast?

Daisuke Daichi, dreams of becoming a passionate teacher at a high school, but all the students in his class, the 3rd grade D, have problems that are a microcosm of today's Japanese society. One incident leads Daichi to be scouted by the BBT, a professional wrestling organization, and he also becomes active as a masked wrestler, Masked D. Daisuke, while keeping the truth hidden, struggles to save the students. Will he be able to solve the problems of the students by fighting as "Masked D" and facing them head-on? This socially-conscious school entertainment depicts a teacher who never gives up and puts his body on the line to face his students no matter what, and the students who are facing various problems!

Nagase Yuma and Asakura Sakura, lifelong friends, navigate unspoken feelings until their final high school summer, when Sakura finally confesses with a kiss.

Ookuwa Kitaro is a jack-of-all-trades who travels nationwide across the country working part-time jobs in order to repay his debts, while dealing with all kinds of troublesome situations.

A sharp lawyer and a savvy detective team up to deliver justice — and a juicy divorce — to the betrayed.

The arrogant “famous detective” Mercator Ayu, he who wears a fancy top hat and suit combination, steps in to help a famous female author who is receiving mysterious playing cards every day and suspects she might be a potential murder victim.