In 20XX, according to deterioration of the peace, Yokohama City became most violent city in Asia. Especially, northern town Aoba that the desertification proceeded and the population decreased got a den of vice. MILLY's husband and daughter was ...
All seniors at a high school stay together at a camp, including student Chinatsu (Rie Kitahara). On their first day, the homeroom teacher announces that all the students must play the card game "Old Maid". In order to reverse the declining academi...
Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a glancing blow to her eyes, thus cutting her badly, and blinding he...
Chikage (Kyoko Hasegawa) dated Tomonori (Shosuke Tanihara) for 5 years. They promised that their future would be spent together, but Tomonori breaks up with her. He falls in love with a young woman and marries her. Chikage is shocked.
Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauch...
At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara (Honoka Miki), who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie (Yuki Furukawa). She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, ...
Small and medium subcontractor production companies currently support the TV industry. Chocolate TV is one such company with 20 employees. It undertakes various productions such as varieties, documentaries and dramas. The height of glory of the TV...
Urara Shiraishi (Mariya Nishiuchi) is a model student with excellent grades. Ryu Yamada (Yusuke Yamamoto) is a trouble student. One day, Urara tumbles down the stairs with Ryu. After the accident, their bodies become switched.
When they tumbled down...
Junichi Naruse (Ryunosuke Kamiki) hopes to one day become a painter, but he works currently on a factory line. His girlfriend is Megumi (Fumi Nikaido) and his days are generally happy. On Christmas Eve, Junichi stops by a jew...
Mozu vows revenge and infiltrates Japan as a North Korean agent. The suspension of a murder case investigation is announced suddenly without a clear explanation. The incident involves numerous people who were killed at a hospital. Political intrig...
Keisuke Miyahara (Haruma Miura) oversleeps on the day of his entrance exam for Tokyo University. To postpone the exam starting time, Keisuke Miyahara sends an email to the school warning of a bomb. His plan works and he is able to take his ex...
When the suspect of an arson case refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the detectives search his house and find a locked-up little girl. She doesn't talk and there are no clues to her identity, so assistant psychology professor Narumi Saku...
Ryujo Hoshiko comes to detective Kindaichi Kosuke's office with a request. She would like him to investigate an attempt to poison her father, Baron Ryujo Kiyohisa. Hoshiko says this may have something to do with the issues of succession such as th...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates a new division which consists of 5 female detectives. The new division is called Higanbana which is a flower with a poison root. The 5 female detective have their own specialties...
Haruki Hanyu (Masaki Okada), who worked as a prosecutor, changes sides and becomes an attorney. He opens his law office "NEXUS". In court, pursues solutions where the plaintiff and defendant can come to a mutual understanding. This differs comple...
Free-spirited Akiko (Tokiwa Takako) marries her kindred soul, a man who has spent much of his life in Russia. Although now in her 30's, Akiko wants to have children and soon gets her wish... only to discover soon afterwards that she has developed can...
Based on the novel "Hakugin Jack" by Keigo Higashino (published October 5, 2010 by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha). A ski resort is held to ransom, for some reason this cannot be reported to the police. The key to it all is in the forbidden slopes which were ...
Yanagi Shuji is terrible at being a monk, as he just wants to have fun all the time. His father is the Chief Monk of the Yagira Temple, and Shuji is expected to take over the role eventually. Unfortunately, Shuji is not only not cut out to be a mo...
Asakura Tomoko obtained her MBA at an American university amd is a rookie reporter for a Tokyo newspaper’s local news desk. Although she is good at numerical expressions, she has not much interest in understanding the feelings of her intervi...
Haruka and Aoi are a pair of friends who become the magical Twin Angels in order to fight off evil as the Red and Blue Angels. Their story revolves heavily around tracking down and protecting Seven Amulets; magical pieces of jewelry capable of genera...
When Ayumi Mastuda (Eiko Koike) worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Gyoukou (Kingone Wang), who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employer's went bankrupt, Gyoukou and Ayumi Matsuda...
Rakuko Kaise (Yuika Motokariya) grew up in a poor family and decided to become a lawyer to make money. She supported herself through law school by working in a bar. After finally passing her bar exam, Rakuko Kaise lands a job with a small law off...
Tsumaki is a private investigator of the “Aaah Detective Agency” that is obviously listed on the first line of the phone book. He has a great love toward investigation, and aims to solve new cases with his keen and original insight, ye...
With an unusual take on pet ownership, this drama asks women, "what if your pet was a man?" Smart, successful and good-looking Sumire Iwaya works for a big newspaper. However, her boss asks her to leave for being too "perfect" a woman and then mak...
One evening, a man stands at subway platform ready to jump off when the next train arrives. During this time, two by-standers (Ryo Kase & Yukie Nakama) both sense the man's intentions and pushes him away before he can kill himself. The man the...
Unmarried Asako Ikeuchi (Atsuko Asano) runs a small company, where several stylists work. Asako also works as a stylist for a magazine. Asako hasn't had a serious romantic relationship in 10 years. She sometimes feels lonely, but she is comfortab...
In the year of 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. Due to a long running depression, Labors, which are robots used in construction, are fired. The Division 1 of "Patlabor" is also dispersed. Patlabors are used by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police to combat crime. D...
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...
A geek (known as “Train Man”) who is a so-called Akiba-kei frequenting Tokyo’s Akihabara area develops tender feelings for a girl living in a completely different world and experiences the excitement of being in love, something h...
Zeiram (Mizuho Yoshida) is an alien of unknown origin. It appears to be a very large, imposing humanoid wearing a wide, circular hat and a ragged cloak, and its appearance is usually accompanied (at least on the film's soundtrack) by an eerie chant...
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 ...
Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When thei...
The story depicts a man's magical experience travelling back in time to redo his life and rebuild broken relations with his family. Nagata Kazuo visits his aging father, Tadao, at the hospital but he was unable to fix their turbulent relationship....
Yukio Mitamura (Ikki Sawamura) started a clothing company and the company is now experiencing rapid growth. The company though is a "black company" (Japanese term for an exploitative sweatshop-type company). Yukio places the company's first ...
Hikari (Kou Shibasaki) is married TV news announcer Masazumi Kubota (Noriyuki Higashiyama). She devotes herself to her husband and is kind to her neighbors. Thanks to his wife's support, Masazumi Kubota has become successful, but Hikari has a...
Ango Ishikawa (Shun Oguri) is a detective with smarts and a keen sense of observation. He's in a great physical shape and also highly ambitious. Ango also only focuses on his work and his personal life is pretty much non-existent.
One day, a form...
Misaki (Satomi Ishihara) and Hazuki (Nao Matsushita) are sisters. When they were younger, Misaki did not study well, but she had a charming personality which endeared her to others. Older sister Hazuki was meticulous, but she wasn't very good...
eisuke Nueno (Ryuhei Maruyama) is the homeroom teacher of a 2nd grade 3 class in high school. He is referred to as Nube. He sometimes carries himself as an idiot, but he does care about his students a lot. He also has a hidden side. Meisuke ...
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...