The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.

A story-a-week episodic medical mystery that treats the theme of reality changing when faced with imminent death. Mystery and exhilarating human drama unfold against the backdrop of the “unnatural death institute”, or “UDI”. For example, the body of a young man is brought into the UDI lab one day; his cause of death attributed to ischemic heart disease in which blood fails to be conveyed to the heart. But the victim’s parents are puzzled by the freak nature of their son’s death and turn to medical coroner Mikoto, to find out why. Together with her lab technician partner, Yuko Shoji, and rookie medical recorder, Rokuro, they examine the body for a possible drug poisoning, and then learn that another female colleague of the deceased man has just died suddenly.


1회 완결의 법의학미스테리. 「죽음과 마주하여 현실 세계를 바꿔간다」가 테마이다. 부자연사 규명 연구소 통칭“UDI랩”을 무대로 스릴있는 해명과 통쾌한 인간드라마가 전개되어 간다. UDI랩에 한명의 남성사체가 운반되어 온다. 사인은 심근에 혈액이 운반되지 않는 것으로 일어나는 허혈성 심질환. 건강했던 아들의 돌연사를 납득할 수 없었던 부모의 의뢰로 주인공 법의학자 미코토가 해부를 맡는다. 임상검사기사 쇼지와 신참기록원 로쿠로. 시신의 상태에서 약물중독에 의한 사망 가능성이 부상하고 검사가 진행된다. 바로 그때 남성의 직장동료였던 여성도 돌연사했음을 알게 된다.


一集一個故事的法醫學懸疑劇。主題是「通過與死相對，改變現實的世界」。以非自然死因研究所，俗稱"UDI實驗室"爲舞台所描寫的驚險解謎和有清爽感的人道主義電視劇展開。
一個男性的遺體被運送到UDI實驗室。死因是由於心肌供血不足而發生的空洞血性心疾病。接受對健康的兒子的猝死擁着不信的父母的委託，主角·法醫生解剖學醫生美琴擔任解剖。合夥人是臨床檢驗工程師東海林和新人記錄員六郎。從遺體的狀態來看藥毒物死亡的可能性浮現，推進檢查。就在這時候，他們同時發現這個男性的女同事也是猝死。