早已过了而立之年的一子（安藤樱 饰）整天百无聊赖，她根本无心帮助打理自家的料理店，整日玩游戏虐杀小外甥。她的妹妹二三子（早织 饰）离婚后回到娘家，极度看不惯姐姐的作为，为此两姐妹甚至大打出手。自感不被家人所容的一子搬了出去，并在日常光顾的百元超市谋得收银员的职位。这间小 店云集着许多怪人，患有忧郁症的店长、话唠猥琐的同事、因盗窃被开除却还时常回来拿临过期食品的老太。在这些人中间，一子的心情愈加苦闷。偶然机缘，她和名不见经传的拳击手狩野（新井浩文 饰）走到一起，无奈他们之间甚至连爱情都谈不上。极度压抑之际一子选择学习拳击，她渴望释放心中的委屈和不满，渴望获得哪怕只有一次的认可。
本片荣获2014年日本电影旬报十佳影片第八名。

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.

In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.

Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.

正准备获得帝都大学的物理学教授的汤川学（福山雅治 饰）是一名不折不扣的物理学怪才，思维异于常人。这日，女警内海薰（柴崎幸 饰）接手了一单离奇的人体自燃案件，毫无头绪却又急于破案的她在同事草薙俊平的介绍下，找到了汤川学。汤川学本来不想惹麻烦上身，后来经不起内海薰的纠缠，终于答应和她携手破案。在经过一系列取证后，汤川学运用他精深的物理学知识，终于揭破了罪犯的犯罪手法，帮助警方顺利破案。
一日，内海薰又接到了一起离奇的谋杀案子。小男孩忠广自称灵魂出窍看到了疑犯的汽车，若忠广所言属实，则疑犯的嫌疑能得以洗脱，然而警方又怎能将灵魂出窍当成证供？难道忠广在说谎？内海薰自然又找到了她的“明灯”——汤川学。汤川学经过现场取证，证明了忠广的确看到了疑犯的汽车，由此为疑犯洗脱了嫌疑，同时戳穿了所谓的“灵魂出窍”，最后真相大白。
凶险棘手的案件在不断发生，而汤川学也周旋在这离奇古怪的迷局里面，一次次展现了智慧的力量。