Tokyo Story is widely regarded as being the crown jewel of Yasujiro Ozu's career, as its consistent placing on all-time top ten film lists around the world along with Citizen Kane, Rules Of The Game and Vertigo will attest. An elderly couple visits t...
The story begins with Mai Shijo (Shaku) meeting three women. Mai is a temp who spends her days aimlessly while vaguely fretting that this is not what she should be doing. The three women are Mitsuko Uehera (Toyota); Kyoko Misaki (Takaoka); and Yukari...
Mimura, Odagiri, Tsutsumi, Matsuyuki, Okina, Yokoyama and two others play aspiring lawyers about to take the bar exam. Each comes from a different background but as the questions in the exams are difficult, they must apply real-life situations and te...
Following "Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu" (adapted into movie of same title) and Satoshi Toyama (Takayuki Yamada) owns an aquatic plants shop named "Trash" and lives a normal life in a quiet small town. One snowy night a girl by the name of Suzune Morikawa (Ma...
Hayashi Niko (Ohgo Suzuka) is a mature middle school student with heightened hearing and the ability to mimic the voice of anyone she encounters. Sudo Ichiro (Matsuyama Kenichi) is an immature Otaku who is obsessed with toy robots. Together they will...
The story revolves around a young man named Mahigashi Teru. When he was young, his father, a brilliant surgeon, died in an accident, but not before saving Teru's ;ife. As a result, Teru also aims to become a great surgeon like his father, devoted to ...
Teenage girl (Ishihara Satomi) has to decide if she is capable of being captain of the school's cheerleading squad. It's the story of how a high school cheering team trying to cope after losing its most important member. Suddenly the team lost the su...
"252..... 252....." - "We have survivors!"
:252" is the rescue code that means "There are survivors." Someone who knows the rescue protocol is trapped underground! The rescuers, the survivors, the families all prey for their loved ones' safe retur...
Kurasawa Hideo (Ninomiya Kazunari) suffers from cerebral palsy and because of that, he is crippled and has difficulty talking. Eveeryone objects to the possibility of him working. However, he doesn't give up and goes from door-to-door, concentrating ...
Ten Nights of Dream is a series of short stories by Natsume Soseki. It was serialized in the Asahi Shimbun from July 25 to August 5, 1908. Soseki composed ten strange dreams set in various time periods beginning with his contemporary time (the Meiji ...
This is a semi-annual special televised by Fuji TV. The series started in April 1990, showing at least two episodes each month. In January 1991, they started airing a new episode each week, with the series ending in December. In 1992, the series aire...
The story revolves around a temp secretary named Kagami Yu who has no luck with finding a boyfriend. However, her true strength is her sense of justice. She faces off against various problems, such as the sexual harassment caused by her male co-worke...
Amamiya Kuniyuki is the unemployed son of a tonkatsu restaurant owner. He finds a job that requires a married person, so he lies by saying that he has plans to marry, and he is forced to keep up the charade using Hida Haruna, a part-time worker from ...
Worried about her younger brother Juntaro's future, Itako visits the soba restaurant that Juntaro runs. The store is known as the "Ikemen Sobaya", due to the good looks of Juntaro and the part-time delivery boys. Itako discovers that Juntaro does mor...
Egami Mei (Odagiri Joe) is a genius surgeon, but is somehow still lacking. On the other hand, his younger sister Satsuki (Nagasawa Masami) is poor at studying, but she has a good nature and a strength for living. "Boku No Imoto" is a human drama abou...
This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "bo...
Former yakuza Haruo is finally released from prison after completing his sentence. With nine years worth of prison gratuities in hand, he stops at a restaurant to enjoy a good meal, but all of his money ends up being stolen. With nothing left, he spe...
These days, the term "homeless" has taken on new meaning. There are youths referred to as "net cafe refugees", who have neither a job nor a place to live, but who find themselves hopping around internet cafes. One such refugee is a 20-year old girl n...
Kuraishi Yoshio is a coroner known for his keen powers of observation and thorough investigations. The term "rinjo" is said to be police slang for the initial investigation carried out at the scene of the crime.
"臨場”,在日本警察組織中,是指“親...
It all started with a "net cafe". The hero Toki Koichi is a soon-to-be father leading a complacent life. One day, he happens to stop by an internet cafe, and there he bumps into Kaho, his first love from his junior high school days. Having just fough...
The story spans three generations of policemen, starting with Seiji, a Pacific War veteran who becomes a cop but dies in a fire near his home. His son Tamio follows in his footsteps as a police officer, but he is killed in the line of duty by a drug ...
After a young boy takes away another boy's life, the series draws the stories of their families as they cope with the tragedy. Both families are typical households that can be found anywhere, and the two mothers are just like any other, devoting thei...
The affair that Mahiro has been having with the married Yutaka has been the only escape from her troubled family life caused by her father's own extra-marital affair. Mahiro despises her father for his past infidelity but cannot bring herself to stop...
Sayama Michio is a young and callous beautician who will stop at nothing to fulfill his ambition(s). Coming from an impoverished background, he suddenly becomes the darling of the beauty world. He holds women who desire beauty captive and puts on sev...
This series is different from the past detective stories. The Lieutenant is collection of true mystery stories in which the detective, Ninzaburo Furuhata, must solve ingenious crimes and outwit elusive criminals. Although Ninzaburo Furuhata is a gove...
This series is different from the past detective stories. The Lieutenant is collection of true mystery stories in which the detective, Ninzaburo Furuhata, must solve ingenious crimes and outwit elusive criminals. Although Ninzaburo Furuhata is a gove...
Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops "Night Tenjo", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riko only sees ...
Kaoru Saegusa (Yuriko Ishida) is a cheerful and dynamic 30-year old woman who is still single. She works at the Tokyo Branch Office of Oedo Travel Agency. One day, she is sent to Hong Kong on business where she meets Shutaro Kamisanjo (Ryuichi Kawamu...
The tale of Tiger & Dragon revolves around Rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedy that can look back on an impressive 400 year long history. Nagase portrays the Yakuza follower Toraji who goes to a Rakugo performer to collect debts, while Okad...
The clothes make the man in the hilarious comedy The Handsome Suit, the first feature from commercial director Hanabusa Tsutomu. Based on a novel by Suzuki Osami, The Handsome Suit serves as a starring vehicle for slight and portly television comedia...
Directed by Shimoyama Ten, the dazzling 2005 film Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respe...
Photo shop owner Masahito (Takemouchi Yutaka) and his wife Keiko (Mizuna Miki) have seemingly the perfect life, living in a small town rural town with son Eiji (Hirota Ryohei), daughter (Yoshida Riko), and a golden retriever. All of this disappears i...
"Romeo and Juliet" is about a female college student (Nagasawa Masami) and an injured young man (Takizawa Hideaki) she meets on the street. They fall in love, not knowing that the girl's police detective father is in the midst of a manhunt to find th...
When a gangster (Satoshi Tsumabuki), having an affair with the wife of his boss (Toshiyuki Nishida), is found out, he promises to save face by recruiting a famous hitman. Instead, when he can't find the real thing, he hires an actor (Koichi Sato) to ...
Matsuda plays Ko, a third year junior high student during the 1980s that fights all through class and acts like a punk. One day he changes bodies with the school honor student! 二十世纪八十年代,在东京正中有一个手枪形的街区。在这里有整天打架闹事的小�...
Otokojuku is a private boys school where true men are made. First year students quickly indoctrinated into the school's idea of what it takes to be a real man by Drill Master Onihige's constant berating. Momotaro, proficient in both academics and mar...
Taro a 12-year-old boy hospitalized in a small seaside town, brings a bit of levity into the lives of the other patients by acting as resident DJ. Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, "Little DJ" is a compelling drama with great music from the 70's. 午夜三点,...
Set in a rural village in southern japan in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of "gabai“ (or "super“) Granny and her grandson Akihiro, who ends up living with her for eight years. Granny is full of power and an expert at Yamamoto Taro, Suzuk...
Nagasawa Masami stars as a woman working at her family's antique shop. One day, a man shows up at the store with a mysterious camera that has the power to reveal a person's future worth. 每集一个主角一个故事。一共6集,每集的主角分别是长泽まさみ、麻生...
Tahara Mika is an ordinary high school girl. One day, out of the blue, one of her classmates kisses her. His name is Sakurai Hiroki also known as Hiro. Hiro stands out because of his bleached hair and piercing. Apparently he is also dating someone. M...
Parents putting in exaggerated claims at teachers and schools, overprotecting their children and pushing those claims at all means are called "Monster Parents". As teachers are afraid of those parents, the ministry of education tries to help them out...
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...
In this police drama, Masaaki Uchino stars as Kuroki, once an ace detective. But after being traumatized from a case, he became unable to work and was transferred to another division, where he idles his time away. One day, a particular case pulls h...
15-year-old Yoko, a young girl who is constantly tormented by her self-centered and devilish older sister Makiko, who works for a government office after having graduated from a famous university. But despite her ill nature, Makiko's actions tend to ...