Ichirôta Miyakawa

Shigeyuki, a Japanese middle school student, needs a tutor to get into a prestigious private school. The tutor he gets is Yoshimoto, a successful college student, who is more than a little odd. This situation is the springboard for a vicious send-up of the traditional Japanese family.

A grudge by an unborn baby spreads through a scar in a girl's body.

On a stormy night, Chiyomi has an argument with her parents and runs out of the house. She thinks about happier times when she was a child and wishes she could become small again. Suddenly she shrinks in size and becomes 15 centimeters tall. (imdb)

Eiko Yagami is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money. One day, Kasumi, who is the daughter of the Senma-gumi gang's leader, is found stabbed to death...

This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.