Sari Tachibana

Heels receives a request from a woman who says, "I'm embarrassed to say this, but I've been inviting men to spend the night with me while I'm unconscious." Heels begins tailing her to find out why...

Ayumi Matsunoki is a fortune teller who can't tell fortunes. Maki is a hypnotist who can't hypnotize. Shigeko is a medium who has no psychic powers at all. The three of them form a bluffing group called "Heels" with special abilities. They take on various cases.

51-year-old Sakurako Sato is a single, poor woman who works for a home care service. When she was young, her father failed in business and evaporated, leaving her with a large debt. She has raised her younger sister, Umeko and has reached this age without a single happy memory of love or fun. In addition, Sakurako has a very poor appearance, and children in the neighborhood make fun of her, calling her "Frankenwoman," which makes her despicable to others. While taking care of Tamura, a wealthy old man she is visiting, Sakurako meets a handsome boy named Ryuji. Sakurako falls in love with him at first sight. When it is eventually discovered that Ryuji is in debt and is being threatened by yakuza gangsters, Sakurako struggles to raise money to help him by working at night at a cabaret club for mature women.

Haruo Sugimura is fresh from serving a two-year stint in prison for assaulting someone when he is recruited by a loan shark named Sakai to help collect money for a company called Minami Hachi Ban Kogyo, baesd in Osaka. Their rates are ruthless: 10% interest is added every 10 days. Their customers are desperate: a hostess who owes money to other loan sharks, a man made suicidal because his family don’t love him anymore. Haruo learns about the art of the loan shark as well as the dark side of peoples personalities.

Ms. Tachibana goes to Ms. Mochizuki's house to perform a pokupuku (exorcism).

Due to the government’s new policy, the Japanese Economy is growing steadily. Although companies are prospering, the citizens are experiencing poverty. Nichiwa Motors initiates their development in warfare devices. Wataru, the president of Nichiwa Motors, creates cyborgs and releases them to the city. Seika Mamiya gets mortally wounded in an explosion during the attack, but luckily she is revived as a cyborg.

Based on true accounts, a top insurance salesman inherits his father’s failing pachinko parlor and vows to become a “casino king,” rebuilding the business with bold, unconventional strategies.

2013 release