Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one more time...

米雪（田中美里 饰）和弘一（池内万作 饰）交往多年，两人即将携手步入婚姻的殿堂，就在这个节骨眼上，弘一的家乡传来了弘一母亲（内海桂子 饰）摔断腿的消息，于是米雪决定代替工作繁忙的弘一前往乡下照顾自己的准婆婆。习惯了大城市生活的米雪来到处处都不便利的乡下，感到非常的不适应，与此同时，准婆婆又是一个严厉的女人，每天都不给米雪好脸色看，在接连受气之后，心灰意冷的米雪产生了逃跑的念头。 在旁人的劝说之下，米雪决定直面难题，再度回到了乡下，一年一度的抬四角灯笼大会因为村里青壮年的流失而面临取消的命运，米雪决定凭借自己的努力让这一传统源远流长。

其实总集数已经超过了10000期。 朝日电视台长寿访谈类节目，由知名女主持人黑柳彻子主持。据日本《MANTAN-WEB》网站报道，由日本女演员、艺人黑柳彻子主持的谈话节目《彻子的房间》于2015年4月27日迎来第一万次播出。对此她表示：“就像做梦一样。这么多年来，嘉宾们一次都没有缺席，我也从未因健康问题而休息过。一直顺利地走到今天，真的很幸运。”

Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever