The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from catching a cold. Their child before Saeko died due to an epidemic, and he believes thorough enforcement is a natural consequence. In 1918, the Spanish flu reaches Japan. As the number of infected people grows, Shiga starts to suspect their servant Ishi might have gone to watch a travelling entertainment troupe’s performance which drew a great number of villagers. It is something Ishi is likely to do. But when Shiga questions her, she says that she did not go. However, she makes him have misgivings on a regular basis and he decides to take this opportunity to make her quit. An uproar ensues. Shiga feels that he has become a tyrant and refrains from kicking her out but he loses all reason and faith in humanity amid the pandemic…

結婚制度や社会道徳に真正面から異議を申し立て、関東大震災後の混乱の中で殺された女性解放運動家・伊藤野枝を描く「風よ あらしよ 劇場版」。伊藤は平塚らいてうの「元始、女性は太陽であった」という言葉に感銘を受けて、青鞜社に参加した。ジェンダー格差や貧困などの社会矛盾に異議を唱え、その後、憲兵に虐殺されることとなる。

2012年秋季 NHK 日剧SP 戦時中、牢獄に放り込まれても自説を曲げなかった誇り高き頑固者であった吉田茂。吉田は連合国最高司令官マッカーサーにも臆することなく対峙し、二人は結果として、日本の再生を共同で成し遂げていくこととなる。ドラマでは戦後占領期に焦点をしぼり、明日も知れない飢餓状況に陥った敗戦国が再度独立し、復興していくまでを描く。