Korean foreign exchange student Kim Yong-Dong (Seung-Ri) studies in Hong Kong and works part-time at a hotel. A murder then takes place in the hotel and Kim Yong-Dong is the prime suspect. Hajime Kindaichi (Ryosuke Yamada) works to uncover the truth.
In a small town in Japan, a series of seemingly random explosion cases occur. Ichiro Suzuki knowns as “Brain Man” is fingered as an accomplice. Midorikawa works on the explosion case.
A series of mysterious murders to which the only clue is an animal bite mark… There is a reason behind his killings. Sang-gil (SONG Kang-ho) is a homicide detective who is perpetually passed over for promotion. One typically dismissive day he&...
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings.
In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for s...
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally ask her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, i...
Yuri (Ayaka Komatsu) leaves home due to her mother and her man. To support her younger sister, Yuri works as a prostitute. One day, she leaves her sick sister at home to go out, but her sister dies. Yuri is struck with guilt and grief. Later, Yuri he...
Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo, Taki works as a housemaid. The f...
Bingo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) has stolen away the girlfriend (Eri Fukatsu) of his crime syndicate boss (Toshiyuki Nishida), and now he faces an ultimatum: find him a legendary assassin named Della Togashi, or die. But time is running out and Della’...
A group of university college students, Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and their cameraman Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen), set out to make a documentary about a suspected bear poacher, Hans (Otto Jespersen). At the...
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 spirit...
Suzuki Tetsuya (Higashiyama Noriyuki), a Japanese trading company employee, lives with his daughter Sakura (Ashida Mana). He is a widower. In the not too distant future, Suzuki plans to marry Lien (Nguyen Lan Phuong), a Vietnamese whom he met through...
Mizushima (Masahiro Motoki) is a top-notch make-up artist who has come to work in Shanghai, along with him is his manager and lover Miho (Naomi Nishida). One evening Mizushima is wandering around alone, when suddenly he is knocked over by a bashed-up...
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant memb...
Naomi is an ordinary high school student who goes to an international school. One day, she loses her memory for the past 4 years. But gradually she begins to search for her identity, and even when her memory returns, she keeps on looking for her real...
The father of a young girl who's scheduled to be married into wealth, hires the charismatic detective Mike Hama to bring her back after she refuses to leave a health spa she's attending. Seems like a simple enough job for the gumshoe -- that is until...
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami...
In 1922, 18-year-old Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson) arrives at university in Madrid. The Residencia de Estudiantes, or Students' Residence, is a modern environment which encourages Spain's brightest young minds. Salvador,...
In her past, Isako Sawada (Ryoko Yonekura) ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her and an executive of a corporation. They eventually married. Nobuhiro owns a large mansion and his money is managed by housekeeper S...
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....
Many people are falling prey to a suspicious new religion. Lupin III infiltrates this group, hoping to steal the treasure their leader keeps hidden. There he lays eyes on the beautiful, bewitching woman who has the leader enthralled. This is the stor...
Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama) is a physicist. He is nicknamed "Galileo" for being a genius and blessed with analytical abilities that even the police look up to. Yukawa's partner is a female rookie cop, Kaoru Utsumi (Kou Shibasaki). The two set o...
Doctor Kota Sezaki (Shota Matsuda) works on a clinic ship, which sails around the Seto Inland Sea. He's talented as a doctor, but possesses a weakness to fall easily in love with women. When he lands at an island, Kota falls in love with a woman from...
The drama's full title is "Code Blue: Doctor Heli Kinkyu Kyumei." The concept is based on Japan's proposal for an emergency medical service using helicopters to quickly reach those in need. A special bill was passed in June 2007 that should foster wi...
Momoko Sakura is an elementary school who likes popular idol Momoe Yamaguchi and mangas. She is often called "Chibi Maruko-chan" due to her young age and small size. She lives together with her parents, her grandparents and her elder sister in a litt...
Kentaro SUGATA (Junpei MIZOBATA) used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays Shogi for money, and boasts his 182 win...
Michiko Daimon (Ryoko Yonekura) goes to a university hospital with her letter of introduction. Michiko Daimon is a freelancer surgeon and is placed at the university hospital by a doctor placement agency. Due to the hospital's harsh working condition...
Shioriko Shinokawa runs an old book shop in Kamakura. Shioriko is pretty, but she can't get along with strangers. She does possess vast knowledge about old books. When Shioriko talks about those old books, she becomes louder and more passionate. Shio...
2011 ReleaseWith the progress made in forensic science, the number of cases of arrested criminals proven innocent because of new DNA tests have been increasing. The police always expect to swiftly solve cases. As crime scene detectives try to measure...
A story about a woman from China who forges her way to Japan by pretending to be someone's wife. When the man is to marry his fiance, he finds out that he is married (someone forged their way into the registry). Now Nakai Kiichi tries to do what he c...
Arisa (Ryoko Yonekura) is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she meets Joji Matsui (Taizo Harada) who works at an advertising agency. Joji has been assig...
Based on Ryo Ryumon's manga, "Bloody Monday" centers around high school student Fujimaru Takagi (Haruma Miura). Fujimaru Takagi is a white hat computer hacker who must clear his father's name by solving the "Bloody Monday" mystery involving Russian t...
2009 Release SHIGI is currently a third-year student at a private college in Tokyo. While she was in the 6th grade, she started doing live street performances with her guitar. Since then, she has played over 200 shows, including some at venues such a...
Based on the popular Japanese comic of the same name about an average girl's high flying romance and friendship with F4 or four handsome heirs. High school sweethearts Tsukasa and Tsukusi are finally getting married. Tsukasa gives his fiancee a preci...
The film is set in the late 1930s, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the first scene, Lieutenant Kurokawa scourges, rapes and disembowels Chinese people during the war. Later, he returns home as a war hero, but with a horribly mu...
TV star Izumi Vakakusa suffers from a terrible disease, which destroys her body. Only one thing can save her by unusual method, developed by Dr. Meredith, associated with a change of the brain in a beautiful body of her daughter Sakura. Sakura finds ...
One year later, class 3-B takes a field trip, but they are gassed, fitted with electronic collars, and sent to a "briefing room" on a remote island. Kitano explains that the class has been chosen to participate in the annual Battle Royale as a result...
After a series of earthquakes causes the largest typhoon in history a former rescue worker gets trapped in a mall with his daughter. He sends out the distress code “252” (survivors in need of assistance) which is picked up by the res...
Takezo (Musashi) abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojir...
Within a mountain village, the Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three sisters from the Sujin family begin to quarrel over the family inheritance. There, consecutive murders then take place in the village. The murders can ...
Aspiring rock star Motokazu Hayato Ichihara fills in for his twin brother Kiichi at college, while he travels to Thailand. Motokazu works as a sushi chef, while playing his guitar in his free time. His brother however is more cerebral and m...
An unidentified middle aged man (Toshiyuki Nishida) is found dead in his car near a camping ground on a mountain in Hokkaido. His dead dog, an Akita, lays next to him. The dog died approximately six months after the man's death. There isn't any ident...
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that Rena, Mion and the others that Keiichi tru...
In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a Judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters.
Sanjuro begins with nine samurai discussing their plan to rid their clan of corruption. What the samurai don't know is that Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is quietly listening in an adjacent room. After saving the samurai from being killed at the...
The global scientific community has discovered that in less than 40 years the archipelago of Japan will sink, due to a collision of tectonic plates. A massive plan for the exodus of a nation’ s population gets underway as Prime Minister Yamamot...
Suenaga Takuya (Fujiwara Tatsuya) is engaged in the development of a robot for the industrial instrument manufacturer, MM Heavy Industries. Nishina Toshiki (Kazama Morio) is the president of the company. The husband of Nishina's eldest daughter, Mune...
Hoshino Asuka is dumped by her boyfriend, who is a colleague at the same workplace, on her 25th birthday. To make matters worse, her apartment catches fire and she can't return to live there. Asuka finds herself wishing for hapiness and the elephant ...
The hero, Hyakkimaru (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor (Yoshio Harada) who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Franke...
Mob bodyguard Yamabe once saved Mayo from thugs and went to jail for it; Mayo must kill the man who Yamabe protects; and Suzu, whose husband Shinichi was the man killed by Yamabe's stray bullet, miscarries her baby. The destinies of these three souls...
Kurosagi is about a young man named Kurosaki who had his family destroyed by swindlers (con artists). when Kurosagi grows up, he becomes a swindler named Kurosagi, so that he can avenge his family. Ever since family was destroyed by swindlers, Kurosa...