Yokai are major figures of Japanese folklore, spirits that occupy virtually everything in the world around us. Some, such as the turtle-like Kappa, are relatively well known, but there are hundreds of others, maybe even thousands. They are the spi...
Ten people gather together at a complex named “Ankikan” after hearing of a short term job paying 112,000 Yen ($1,236 USD) per hour. The ten people are informed that they will be monitored 24 hours a day for 7 days straight in a psychol...
Michiko (Ryoko Yonekura) enjoys a day watching horse racing at a race track in Hokkaido. Meanwhile, a woman, who is wearing luxurious fur and served by an attractive young man, sits in the owner's chair, drinking champagne.
The horse, which is ow...
Two months have passed since a zombie epidemic began. Despite the chaos around, three high school students in sailor suits live ordinary school lives.
Maiko (Nana Owada) is a transfer student. She hopes to become an idol. Even though Maiko ...
BBC Worldwide distributes the series, and licensed it in over 60 countries. In the U.S., Little Robots is part of Cartoon Network's Tickle-U programming block and debuted in 2005. It is also aired on TVOKids in Ontario, ...
Founded in June 1985, the studio is headed by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki. Prior to the formation of the studio, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese...
Night and Fog in Japan begins with the marriage of a couple who became acquainted during the demonstrations against the ratification of the U.S.- Japan Security Treaty in the summer of 1960. Soon the wedding degenerates into a heated discourse amo...
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularitie...
"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers.
34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationshi...
"Sunao ni Narenakute" revolves around 5 young people who meet in Shibuya, Tokyo through popular microblogging site Twitter.
"Nakaji" (Eita) works as a photographer and follows in the foot steps of his father who also worked as a photographer.
"Haru...
In the SP "Hidarime Tantei EYE," which aired in October, Ainosuke Tanaka (Ryosuke Yamada) receives a cornea transplant in his impaired left eye. Ainosuke received the transplant from his older brother who mysteriously died. After the operation, Ain...
"Rookies" is the story of a fervent teacher who is trying to straighten his troubled students through high school baseball, and of the students who, although dropouts, are aiming to take part in the “Koshien” championships.
Just like ...
Fumiyo Nabekura (Ai Takabe) is a gloomy high school teacher that doesn't have any friends. She then starts to dress up at night as a ghost to frighten others, but starts to come across actual real life ghosts ...
The Dekarangers encounter the Gas Drinkers gang from the planet Algol, who plan to infect planets with the "Golden Snow" virus that turns people into machine slaves, and then sell them the vaccine for a high price. During their investigation, they...
Shimako Kanzaki (Arisa Mizuki) is an “OL” (female office worker) who has worked at the General Affairs department of a trading company for all of her 9 years with the company, and is called “Ms. General Affairs” by her co-w...
In a future world where an organization called the GGP has taken control of the world, Rin Ogata was a promising up-and-comming ballet dancer, but suffered a serious injury and decided to quit. Years later in college she comes across a club buildi...
Ryosuke Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a failed actor who falls into debt to the mob and must now work for them. His job is to smuggle or dispose of bodies and for that he makes a 50,000 Yen a day. He works with Jo (Masatoshi Nagase) and his assistant...
Taketora Shibata (aka "Shibatora") is just a quiet, ordinary junior-high student. He looks so vulnerable that bullies try to rip him off on the streets. However, he is actually a police detective and an expert swordsman in kendo. Shibata has a specia...
"Shouwakusei Tansaki Hayabusa" follows the 7 year plight of the unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft launched in May 9, 2003. After seven years, Hayabusa returned succesfully to Earth, bringing back samples from the 25143 Itokawa asteroid.
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.
One day, Setsuko complai...
Saya Toma (Erika Toda) is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unkno...
Daisuke Bamba (Hiroki Konno) has a complex about his physical traits. He wants to become a director, but doesn't know what to shoot. Daisuke Bamba soon turns 32-years-old.
25-year-old actress Momoko Kinoshita (Sayaka Tashiro) is superstitous. When s...
Set within the hospitality division of the Kochi Prefecuture, employees attempt to find new ideas to promote tourism in the region.
The hospitality division in Kochi Prefecture can't promote the beautiful nature in the area due to a strict rule by t...
Shotaro Tarui (Satoshi Ono) came to Tokyo 7 years ago, pursuing his dream of becoming a superhero. He hasn't yet become a superhero and he has just lost his latest part-time job. Erika Hanazono (Yui Aragaki) comes from a complicated family background...
Set within the flower shop named Marietta, known if people buy flowers there and propose then their proposal is usually accepted. Four men then attempt to propose.
Snowdrop
A man (Takumi Saito), who isn't good at dating, meets his first love again....
Ayumi Aizawa (Kyosuke Hamao) is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel ...
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters.
Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle gang in the Kanto area. Now, Tetsu Hino is middle-aged man who is looked down upon by his rebellious...
Seibei Iguchi is a low-ranking samurai of the Unasaka clan in Shonai Province of northeast Japan. His wife died of tuberculosis, a frequent cause of demise in those early years of hunger and malnutrition. With two daughters, Kayano and Ito, and an ag...