In this Japanese historical drama, a hard-headed painter refuses to allow his daughter to be with his Korean protege and ends up throwing the lad from his house. The girl then escapes to the court of the local ruler who informs the painter that sh...
19-year-old freeter Tsuyoshi Osanai (Yosuke Asari) enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie. Chie was separated from his mother 2 months after birth an...
Kumiko “Yankumi” Yamaguchi (Yukie Nakama) lives in the world of Yakuzas as the 4th generation heir of Oedo clan. She is self-sacrificing to protect the weak, she’s tough at fighting, and she firmly believes in the importance of f...
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his for...
After his wife's death, renowned saxophonist Akira (Masakazu Tamura) decides to give up music. When his wife was alive, he was intent on pursuing his dreams and had little time for family. Now he lives a quiet life, devoting his time to his daughter....
n a near future, mankind has moved from a drained Earth to the Moon. Rebel acts of terrorism lead to conflicts with the Earth Federal Government. A mysterious entity called Dallos appears to restore hope.
Take (Hiroshi Abe) and Tetsu (Shoji Murakami) are two middle aged men who are swindlers. Take, after losing his wife and daughter, became a swindler. Tetsu became a swindler after Take asked him to join him. They live in an old house. Beautiful siste...
"The Dog's Name (犬の名前)"
Translator Ichiro Tadano (Nao Omori) decides not to have a dog. when he was young, he cared for a dog named Saba as if the dog was his younger brother, but the dog was killed in a car accident. His wife Masato (Nanako Mat...
Jiro Shiba (Jiro Sato) has lived with his parents for all of his 38 years. One day, he gets out of his comfort zone due to his mother's strategy. He finds a job at a pet shop. Jiro doesn't find change easy and has difficulties adjusting at his new jo...
A man's body is found under the statue of a giraffe with wings in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells ...
On the small island of Miyakejima lives the Noyama family. The family runs a running lodging home. Elementary school student Shin Noyama names their new born puppy Rock. Shin absolutely adores Rock. On August, 2000 a devastating volcano erupts on the...
Mukai is taking on the role of Eisuke, a former bassist of a rock band who gave up his music dreams to carry on the tradition of his family’s French restaurant. The show will involve a love triangle as Kuninaka and Takimoto play rivals for Eisuke’s...
A non "elite" female detective,Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi), stationed at the Metropolitan Police Department has risen fast through the ranks due to her hard work. She becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night".
Donoue General Hospital is operating in the red. Its doctors take joy rides in their luxury foreign cars, and spend their time drinking and playing each day; indifferent to the deaths of patients. Its nurses have no motivation. The surgeon, Sagara Ko...
Kageyama is a butler working for a rich heiress, Reiko Hosho. Needed by detectives, Reiko is a novice detective that lacks a few deductive skills. Because of this, Kageyama is relied on by Reiko to help solve cases. Kageyama isn't afraid to use sharp...
Matsukura Shuhei (Nishijima Hidetoshi) comes from a line of craftsmen. While he supports his family and craftsmen as the head of the household, he wishes for Japan’s victory in the Pacific War. However, when he decides to comply with an order to cit...
So close and yet so far away...An inconspicuous body guard Namiki Kohei (Nishijima Hidetoshi) is assigned to be a body guard to a mega Korean super star, Han Yuna (Kim Tae Hee). Kohei is less than ordinary, a single man almost 40 in age working part ...
Fujii Emi is a girl who can't forget her ex-boyfriend. She thinks that being treated as a "guy's girl" is comfortable, but she wants to feel real love inside. Ogura Saki (Yoshitaka) failed to find a job, and ended up working at a hostess bar. Althoug...
In the fifth month of Keio 4 (1868), on the brink of the new Meiji era, Usui Watari, the administrator of the small domain of Akizuki in Kyushu, and his wife, were assassinated. Blazing anger grew in their son, Rokuro (Fujiwara Tatsuya), who had witn...
Bem (Kamenashi Kazuya), Bella (Anne) and Bello (Suzuki Fuku) are ugly monsters that are neither human nor animals, but they are peace-loving, righteous heroes who feel compelled to help humans in trouble. Because they are monsters, they are feared an...
Tomura (Yosuke Eguchi) was once widely lauded as a legendary patissier, but some 8 years ago he inexplicably left the field. Since that time, Tomura has lectured at culinary schools and wrote a guidebook for pastry critics. Natsume (Yu Aoi) is a youn...
In a national project to rebuild the country’s self-confidence, Japan’s first Antarctic winter party set off from Japan on an antacrtic exploration aboard the observation ship ‘Soya’ in 1956. Kuramochi Takeshi (Kimura Takuya), an assistant profes...
Asagi Serina is a housewife who loves her husband, Takefumi, to the extent that she would not mind being his shadow. However, his response to her excessive devotion is to attempt to avoid her “burdensome”, “gross” expression of love.
With a wi...
A big furry white Akita arrives & wanders into the town of Ajigasawa, Aomori - within view of the Shirakami Mountain Range. The dog is tired and in fact has travelled all the way from Tokyo to find its owner. The Akita dog then runs into Tetsuko ( Hi...
Abandoning a promising career with the medical elite, Dr Touma opts to station himself in a small city hospital.
Mayor Okawa is admitted with cirrhosis of the liver requiring a crucial transplant.
At about the same time, a brain-dead patient is...
Masataka Shirota (Shota Matsuda) has a weak disposition and works in a child consultation center. One day, his soul changes bodies with yakuza boss Jin Sabashima (Katsumi Takahashi) who lives in the same small town. After this, Masataka Shirota becom...
Personnel transfers take place at the metropolitan police department and Sakuragi Izumi is called upon by Nagashima Hideo who had been transferred to the special crime investigations prevention department. At the same time, the special investigations...
A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the unbelievably ironclad husband and wife raised includes, an unmarried and divorced, a marriage hunter, a boyfr...
Haruhi Fujioka is a scholar student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictional high school located in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the Third Music Room, a place where the Ouran Academy Host Club, a group...
Tamami (Esumi Makiko) is a shrewd forensic pathologist who boldly acts according to her own convictions. She would do whatever it takes to reveal the truth behind the deaths of victims who have no voice, and pays no heed to the objections from those ...
Junpei Takakura (Shingo Katori) works as an advisor at a matrimonial agency. He has matched countless couples while going by the motto of a man selling happiness. Haruna Yanagisawa (Meisa Kuroki) is a mysterious client of Junpei. No matter how hard h...
Two years ago, the Special Crimes Unit which Osawa Eriko headed, was embroiled in corruption and disbanded. Eriko had taken responsibility and decided to go to America. When she was at the airport and about to set off, she had received a call from No...
Middle school teacher Yoko Moriguchi’s (Takako Matsu) life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4 year old daughter. Eventually Yoko Moriguchi suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter’s death. An elaborate ...
Tasuku is a glassworker living in Yamagata Prefecture. His days are busy working and looking after his mother who suffers from dementia. Monami, who lives in Tokyo, has come to visit Yamagata alone, to see the Keiou cherry blossoms that bloom in the ...
Tennoji Misaki, a club hostess who has climbed her way to be the number one in Roppongi, transforms into Midori Gakuen’s high school teacher at the request of the club’s female proprietress. She covers up her background as a former hostess and goes...
Uemura Natsumi (Toda Erika) and Kashiwagi Shuji (Miura Haruma) are waiting to get married half a year later. However, Shuji makes the mistake of getting involved with a young female student of his portrayed by newcomer Takei Emi. Natsumi is a passion...
The drama revolves around a public elementary school beset with problems. Eguchi plays the passionate protagonist, who worked at construction sites for 20 years with a mid-sized general contractor. However, in order to keep a promise he made with his...
Segawa Rio, a quick-acting detective, gets transferred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Violent Crimes Division after she got shot during her previous case. She is made to work together with Nagumo Jun, a level-headed but eccentric psychology prof...
The story unfolds around the themes of friendship and love, as one woman (Minamisawa Nao) deals with amnesia and her boyfriend’s friend (Kim Jae-wook) steps in to act as her boyfriend (Kim Joon). The love story that unfolds around the three is ...
The story revolves around Take Seiji, who quits his job after three months. With no dreams, no savings, and a poor relationship with his family, he becomes a hikikomori. However, after his mother falls ill with depression, he ends up having to take o...
Takenouchi plays an aquarium employee named Kengo, who seems ordinary at first glance but actually possesses a secret that he would sacrifice everything in order to protect. Meanwhile, Ueto plays Risa, a young woman working in the sex trade in order ...
Kanno plays the part of Meiko Nogami, a woman with a beautiful and kind heart. But 15 years ago her older sister's husband and son were killed and Meiko was falsely charged with the crime. She is released from prison 12 years later, and she resumes l...
Asada Ryutaro (Sakaguchi Kenji) rallies Team Medical Dragon again in order to resuscitate a faltering Meishin University Hospital. Hospital management is being rationalised in addition to the shortage of surgeons in the Japanese medical community and...
One morning, a shotgun as well as 500 rounds of live ammunition is stolen from Jinnan Precinct. When Azumi Tsuyoshi arrives at the crime scene, he sees Ishikura, the head of the forensics unit, who predicts that the criminal will soon commit another ...
Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Taiga, only get to appear in variety shows, most of the time. One day when his friend bring him out for a skydiving, a big wind d...
Yuri Saotome (Yuki Amami) is a successful business woman who runs a sports center and a beauty salon. She is also determined to one day achieve a gold medal vicariously through her children.
Yuri married a gold medalist to gain the proper genes an...
Three years ago, the heart of Amemiya Hotaru, the 'dried up female', had settled on Takono 'Buchou', and she was supposed to have grown up... However, right after that, Hotaru was posted as a project team member to far-away Hong Kong. She was cut off...
The suspenseful story follows an enthusiastic lawyer who becomes a nationally wanted man after being falsely accused of murder, arson, and embezzlement. He goes on the run, and while trying to hunt down the real criminal, he encounters various people...
Date Kazuyoshi (Sakai) is a detective on the Kanagawa prefectural police force. During the day, he is known as a "Buddha" for his gentle personality, pouring all of his energy into resolving each case. At night, however, he transforms into a cruel pu...
Nakama Yukie and Abe Hiroshi starring a popular series of TV Asahi revived after a lapse of four and a half, TV Asahi to launch , the story is set in a village where an ancient custom still remains, about the cause of the tragedy because lullaby, ...
Otani (Tadanobu Asano), a prodigiously talented writer, and his beautiful, faithful wife Sachi (Takako Matsu). While he is talented, his is a destructive lifestyle of heavy drinking, running up debt, and forming passionate relationships with women ot...
Shibata Taketora (Koike Teppei) goes to meet Hosho Mitsuki (Ohgo Suzuka), a female high school student who was arrested as the ringleader of the ‘Kishin case’ and placed in a juvenile corrective institution. Mitsuki is scheduled to for re...
Kimura Takuya's next romance since "Beautiful Life" in 2000. This time he will star as Hazuki Rensuke, the boss of an interior design company. Other cast members include stars like Shinohara Ryoko, Kitagawa Keiko and Chi-ling Rin, who will all be lov...
Kohei Taguchi (Atsushi Ito). hospital therapist at Tojo University Hospital & eccentric Health Ministry offical Keisuke Shiratori (Toru Nakamura), face off against genius emergency doctor Koichi Hayami (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and investigate a medical ...
Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has bee...
Sakuragi Izumi (Ueto Aya) is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to inve...