A former journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is contacted by the 85 year-old CEO of a major corporation, who hires the headhunter to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son.

"Headhunter" takes on the changing times where lifetime employment was a thought in the past, now that thought is changing and the story focuses on today's labor environment and Kazuki Kurosawa is a business talent scout in the headhunter world.