私家侦探：平冈公主和愚温达

　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

 这次特别篇的舞台，是吉宗治世20多年后的江户城。原创系列中年轻的将军吉宗也面临着六十大寿的继承问题。剧中保留了系列的世界观和魅力，在继承问题上摇摆不定的吉宗和江户城内的人们的模样，以及在城下町发生的阴谋漩涡的疑难事件，将被加入新的角色和时代性来描绘。

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　　本作由井上刚担任导演，与NHK四月播出的剧集《地震之后》共享故事框架，同时新增场景重新剪辑而成。该片基于村上春树短篇小说集《神的孩子全跳舞》中四则短篇，讲述关于丧失与重生的故事。描绘1995年阪神淡路大地震后，四个在不同时代与地域背负孤独生存之人的命运交织，最终与当下产生联结的历程。