Haruo Izawa is 45 years old and the floor chief of the local grocery store “Umeya”. He is highly trusted by Store Manager Ueda and the part-time ladies and the Ohara branch is the only place where he has been working for 25 years. Although he says that he doesn’t fit to be a store manager, he is still concerned about HR and career advancement. That’s why Ueda’s praise "command center" is his only treasure. Besides, he is also a husband of his wife Ritsuko, and a father of two daughters and a son, Koume, Kanako, and Ryota at home. Humor and pathos are said to be only a fine line, but Haruo’s fruitless actions of paying attention to the human relationships and atmosphere and overthinking never stop.. Where is this middle-aged man’s turmoil going??
Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful Yoshino Ikoma. She runs a goldfish scooping store. Makoto Kashiba falls in love with her at first sight.
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. She heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found. So Shizuka sets off on a journey around Japan to find him and break the spell.
Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home, Tetsuro and the man who calls himself Shinichi develop a father-son dynamic, despite the secrets that linger between them.
Reiki Beni (Tomonori Hirose), the second head of the Beni Detective Agency, along with his partner Shoji Ai (Gentoku Aoki), underground idol Saori (Asuka Kishi), and Yayoi (Reiko Yakima), Reiji's grandmother and the owner of the detective agency, spend their days searching for pets and investigating cheating at the detective agency they inherited from their grandfather.
A series of skits revolving around poking fun at Japanese traditions, such as the art of romance, apologies, and sushi-eating.
Ryosuke Takei (竹井 亮介, Takei Ryōsuke, June 7, 1972) is a Japanese actor from Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University. He belongs to talent agency Imagination.
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