Kei Ishikawa

Magazine reporter TANAKA is granted request to investigate a year old murder case gone cold, where a "perfect" family - a successful businessman, his beautiful wife and adorable child - were brutally murdered. Tanaka interviews acquaintances of the dead but gradually finds out that the family was not exactly ideal as believed, as stories of their true nature unfold. Equally disturbing are the interviewees themselves, each letting loose their own hidden nature. (imdb)

A woman who's had a hard life is convicted of arson-murder and is sentenced to hang. Her childhood friends cannot believe she'd do this and rally round but, while imprisoned on Death Row, she refuses all aid. Why? Series tells her life story alternating between "now" and past incidents related to her childhood and school friends going right from childhood innocence to "today". (Personal synopsis)

Rie, devestated by a marriage breakup, is chatted up in her (?) store by a total stranger. She falls for him and he for her. She is happily (re)married for 3 odd years, having his daughter, her preteen son likes "dad" as well. One day hubby is killed in an accident. When a relative comes to mourn it's discovered that dead hubby is a complete unknown. She hires a lawyer to solve the mystery. The lawyer is dedicated but has identity problems of his own. (me)