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嘘解きレトリック
The tag team of an impoverished, debt-ridden detective with a sharp, analytical eye and a girl with the strange ability to “hear lies” crack cases in this retro-modern back-alley sleuthing drama.
In 1926, Kanoko Urabe, a girl growing up in the countryside, has had the ability to hear when people are lying for as long as she can remember. However, the villagers shun her because of her power. Kanoko’s mother, Fumi Urabe, tries to protect her, but Kanoko leaves the village, not wanting to trouble her mother any longer. She winds up in Tsukumoyacho, a town awash in lies. In search of work, Kanoko goes to a cafe called “Rose,” which had a help wanted ad posted looking for waitresses urgently, but the waitress there, Lily , turns her down, saying that the position has just been filled. With nowhere to go, Kanoko collapses from hunger, and the head of the Iwai Detective Office, Soma Iwai, who was coincidentally passing by, stops to help her. Eventually, Kanoko becomes Soma’s assistant, and together they solve many difficult cases as she looks for a place where she can belong..
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Michi Yoshino works in the sales department of a construction company and leads an ordinary life. She and her husband, Yoichi Yoshino, have been married for five years and still get along well, but there is only one thing lacking: sex.
They sleep in the same bed every night, but he never tries to approach her. With the advice of her junior colleague, she makes an effort to buy flashy underwear and takes care of her skin whilst feeling, “maybe I’m not attractive enough for him?” The results are always disappointing. She spends days and months without feeling her husband’s love. The couple’s relationship gradually becomes strained, as they are left with a vague anxiety…
Meanwhile, Makoto Niina, a boss of Michi at her company is an excellent worker with a good personality, and has many fans at the workplace because of his handsomeness. He is even a good husband who does housework on behalf of his busy wife. Two couples that should have been doing well…
One day, Michi, who had been stood up by her husband for another night out, is drinking a can of beer alone in the night breeze. Makoto happens to pass by and the two end up drinking together. Michi gets drunk and confesses to him about their private life…