Senri Oe

A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories.

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?

A romantic comedy, it comically depicts a great twist of fate between a young man who leads an attractive life and a girl who was unlucky in life.

On a long-distance bus to Aomori, Sato, on the run after avenging his dead daughter, meets Pastel, a girl travelling to claim her grandfather's biplane, and the two exchange idle conversation. When a detective suddenly boards the bus, Pastel panics and pulls out Sato's gun.

The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada's best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.

North General National Hospital in Tondo, Philippines, known as the tertiary hospital, it is the last bastion of Philippine healthcare, accepting all patients overflowing from primary and secondary national hospitals. Within Tondo lies Smoky Mountain, the largest slum in the East, home to tens of thousands of impoverished people. The battle against disease, poverty, and ignorance within this slum is the great mission entrusted to North General National Hospital. Hideyuki Harada is the sole Japanese doctor working in the hospital's obstetrics and gynaecology department. Despite struggling with language and cultural differences, and grieving the death of his lover, he was determined to stand up for the children who, due to poverty, could not receive adequate medical care and were dying.