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Dude fights immortal beings.

This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly shorten his life. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Song Byung-Tae (Jae Hee) is a quiet, shy guy, making him the perfect target for bullies at his school. In fact, Byung-Tae is beaten up daily by bullies. He then reads books on martial arts and fighting techniques to one day combat his tormentors, but it doesn't seem to help. Byung-Tae then comes across a strange man named Pan-Soo (Baek Yoon-Sik). Pan-Soo is a former legendary brawler, but now keen on keeping a low profile until he can leave the country for good. Pan-Soo notices that Byung-Tae has potential as a fighter. While, Pan-Soo at first blows off Byung-Tae's pleas for help. A change of heart leads Pan-Soo to train Byung-Tae in the art of fighting.

30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no Ya after he hears that his father has been hospitalized. But he is lost for words when he sees that it has completely changed. The dignity and service of the inn, which boasts a 100-year heritage, has totally vanished. It has transformed into a haunt where employees who are not easy to deal with linger around. There is Terakado Lucy Kazuko, a flamenco dancer who says a stream of offensive things; Kageshima Shunsaku, a germaphobe manager who hates hot springs; Asatsuki Momoyo, the head waitress who is a single mother devoted to her son Ringoro; Ringoro, a boyish employee who loves his mother and unicycle; Uno Kanata, a chef who has a UNO addiction; and Umekoshi Hifuji, an old-timer who has clung on to the inn for 40 years. Not knowing that such formidable enemies are waiting for him, Tetsuro is told to leave when he arrives at the inn. Despite his attempts to enter using various means, he bounces off the impregnable defences and breaks down crying at the entrance, and a mysterious big man shows up. Will Tetsuro be able to enter the inn and will the day come when the employees will accept him?