On December 25, it is Shuko Yoshioka's (Kazue Fukiishi) 34th birthday. She has a good time with her husband Kenichi (Munetaka Aoki), her first child Ai (Konomi Watanabe) and her second child Yu (Hinata Igarashi), but Kenichi notices s...
The Kumagawa Hospital which is located in the outskirts of town. Ogami Runa joined as a nursing staff 2 weeks ago. One night, with the lights all turned low, her fellow colleague, Suzuki Ayako is terrified out of her wits when a woman dressed in a...
A hit-and-run incident takes place within Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Bartender Junpei Hamamoto (Kengo Kora), who witnessed the hit-and-run take place, realizes the person arrested for that incident is not the person he saw driving...
Yoichi Haruno (Hiroshi Tamaki) is 35-years-old and works for a company. His wife, Chisato (Kana Kurashina), is 28-years-old. Before they had a child, their marriage life was easygoing. After having their child, their relationship changes. Yoichi f...
Set half a year after the first season of "First Class." Chinami Yoshinari (Erika Sawajiri) begins work as a fashion designer. In the high-end luxury field, big money is involved and Chinami Yoshinari is again trampled over by other women. She att...
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 ...
Heisuke Hara (Ryo Nishikido) works as a teacher at an all boys high school in Shizuoka Prefecture. 15 years ago he had an unfortunate accident which made his life go crazy. He has since become obsessed with his hometown and the school where ...
A university associate professor in architecture, Saikawa Kohei (Ayano Go), and his wealthy student Nishizono Moe (Takei Emi) solve unusual locked room murder cases.
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...
Tomio Shiraishi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) graduated from a prestigious university and now works for foreign securities company. He has a beautiful fiance, Kozue Aoike (Fumino Kimura), and no complaints with his life. One day, his father kills hi...
Sakura (Yukie Nakama) is a detective who uses her listening skills to solve cases.
In the morning, Sakura listens to callers to as DJ Kokoro at a local radio station. In the afternoon, she listens to citizens' problems by working at the Community ...
Nozomi Sugishita (Nana Eikura), Shinji Naruse (Masataka Kubota), Nozomi Ando (Kento Kaku) and Masato Nishizaki (Keisuke Koide) make a plan. The plan brings them to the scene of the Noguchi married couple murder case wh...
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...
Kotoko (Honoka Miki) loved Naoki (Yuki Furukawa) for 6 years and finally married him. Now, Kotoko transfers to the department of nursing in her studies and struggles …
Yoshinaga Seichi is a detective of the Kanagawa Prefecture Police’s First Investigative Division. He believes "there is no case that cannot be solved" and he never gives up on an investigation. His partner is Kagami Kiichi, whose father, Tak...
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...
A traumatized lawyer who can't fight in court and an elite lawyer who got expelled from the bar association for using a forcible tactic team up to solve problems mainly affecting women, such as maternity harassment and marriage fraud. This exhilar...
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...
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...
When an armed group seizes control of an elite high school, a group of classmates are forced to find 2,000 puzzle pieces hidden throughout the school within 48 hours.
At age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu (Mao Inoue), has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she be...
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...
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...
Based on a hit manga, this adaptation depicts the life of a married man Nanase Kohei after he returned to his former job as a male host. He woos the clients with his gentle and caring nature, and soon retrieves his former credit as the ace of the ...
5 college age art students become close friends as they share common interests in the field of art. The newest member of their group is Hagu. She is the niece of an art professor at the university and is known as a child prodigy. Immediately two o...
Every day, bank branches encounter various problems like missing money, information leaks, loan problems & breach of duties. Mai Hanasaki's (Anne Watanabe) job is to go there and fix the problems. She is able to do so, even though sh...
"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...
Two teenagers, Hiroki (Masaki Okada) and Riku (Kie Kitano), are walking along a beach in Shonan when they encounter an old woman who is screaming. Her two grandchildren have wandered into the surf. Hiroki rushes in to save them, but it isn't neces...
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...
After Domyouji leaves for New York, Makino hasn't spoken to him for a full year. Rui and the F4 members try to get them together again by traveling to New York for the Christmas holidays. But when they meet Domyouji he has changed into a totally d...
Have you ever thought you were going to die? You might have been surprised to death, afraid to death, laughed to death, or even be really close to dying. This high quality drama series brings you such "near death" experiences in various forms: Wha...
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...
When a young gang leader seems to be just a bit too stupid to effectively carry out his daily tasks--embarrassing his gang members and himself frequently--his superiors order him to go back to school for his high school diploma. Once situated in t...
In this final episode of the hugely successful "One Missed Call" franchise, the timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending a disturbing photo with the message: '...
"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 ...
A man (Takashi Tsukamoto) inadvertently kills his uncle. A woman (Kyoko Fukada) witnesses this act. These two people fall in love and flee to Tokyo. A detective investigates their past ...
With the help of Rihito, Mei decides to have a reason to become a heiress. But as the time goes on and problems build up between other heiresses including one she doesn't know about, "Lucia" aka Hongo Shiori (Yu Yamada) also wants to be the heire...
Haru Tezuka's (Maki Horikita) parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds it difficult to get a job.
Haru then notices an application guideline from airl...
Former gangster Hiroshi Hatakeyama (Narushi Ikeda) is murdered in a residential neighborhood. Police inspector Yuichiro Goda (Takaya Kamikawa) is assigned to the case, but his leads soon all dry up. Shortly later, another murder occurs this time in...
Three men and a woman living on the same floor of an upscale condominium just happen to become acquainted with one other. In order to prove the notion that “there is only one destined soul mate for every person” the pair decides to try...
"Papa Wa Idol" depicts the entertainment world and family world through idol singer Ryo Nishikido (Ryo Nishikido) as he gets married to a single mother
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...
A testament to the goodness of humankind, Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard (Akahige) chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director. Toshiro Mifune, in his last role for Kurosawa, gives ...
A young woman searches for her younger brother who was dragged away into an alternate world by a rabbit ...
10-year-old Daigo (Takeru Shibuya) kills a sick rabbit on the school playground which he adored. The other kids call him "rabbit killer." S...
Set within the Suzuki Store in Kobe, Japan. Owner Yone Suzuki (Yuki Amami) and general manager Naokichi Kaneko (Shun Oguri) work to grow their sugar wholesale store to an international general trading company.
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they ...