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- 29-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is sent back in time 18 years to prevent the events leading to his mother's death, which began with a series of kidnappings while he was in 5th grade.
- A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo.
- The story of a group of young friends and the mysterious events that occur in the rural village of Hinamizawa.
- Five childhood companions reunite when the ghost of their dead friends appears, and demands they grant her final wish.
- After finding his mom killed, Satoru's time-traveling ability takes him back 18 years for a chance to prevent her death and those of three classmates.
- After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Funeral Parlor", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government.
- A man adopts his six-year-old aunt and raises her as his own kid.
- Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage. Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée.
- Onizuka, a former delinquent finds himself in the role of a high school teacher, facing students who behave just as he used to. Using unusual methods, he manages to reach through to his students and help them with their problems.
- A live action film version of the hit Japanese TV series staring Takashi Sorimachi as Eikichi Onizuka.
- Set in a future where the sky has been changed into a giant mirror, two teenage children are caught in a struggle between a group of super-powered beings and a mysterious woman's team of children aiming to stop them.
- An insecure young woman, obsessed with jellyfish, lives in a house full of awkward women. Meeting a stylish "princess" turns her life upside down.
- Three women, Canaan, a Middle Eastern assassin, Alphard, a leader of a terrorist group and Canaan's nemesis, and Maria, a victim of a horrific terrorist attack, cross paths at an anti-terrorism summit in Shanghai.
- When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
- A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house and her ghost begins to haunt not only Junko but also her husband, Sato (Koji Yakusho).
- Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
- Shinichi Chiaki, is a talented musician who finds a rather strange companion in Megumi Noda. As they get to know each other they also meet a variety of crazy characters and face some challenging opportunities.
- The spiteful ghost of Sadako, a murdered woman whose body was thrown down a well, reaches the Internet searching for a host in order to live once again.
- A man adopts his six-year-old aunt and raises her as his own kid.
- The Japanese government was rescued from the brink of financial collapse by the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
- A band of ninjas has been forced to stand back and covertly go into business in order to stay out of the spotlight. Being out of favour with the shogun does that to you. With the said shogun dead there is an opening for the band to return to activity, but at first the inclination is to remain dormant. That is, until a violent group of ninjas emerge.
- Features four short horror films, among those are "Katasumi" and "4444444444".
- A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
- Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now: He is unexpectedly assigned to a south polar mission to serve as head chef at the Dome Fuji station. Leaving wife and daughter behind for a year, he and the other crew members experience one existential crisis after another in the icy cold. And then they run out of Ramen!
- Living together with the girl he love should be a dream for Nakagami, but the reality is closer to a nightmare. At school, Hiromi is kind and popular. But at home, she is a completely different person. How can he unlock her heart?
- Timid samurai Akitsu Masanosuke becomes involved with the group "Five Leaves" after becoming the bodyguard for their mysterious, yet charismatic leader Yaichi.
- Mochizuki Kohei married Maria, the beautiful and talented daughter of a wealthy family. He quit his job at a medium-sized advertising agency to run a cafe and appears to have everything going well with him. Although Kohei pretends to be the perfect husband, he feels suffocated by his wife's consideration and restrictions and plots her murder at the instigation of his cafe partner and lover Kitasato Anna. However, the situation drastically changes just as he makes the decision to kill Maria. When Kohei returns home, she has been kidnapped and the kidnapper demands an enormous ransom. To make things worse, he is made a suspect at some point in this kidnapping case and driven into a corner. In the middle of this, Maria's frightening true face which was completely unknown to Kohei gradually emerges.
- Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a geisha, like her now-deceased mother. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
- Tobio Masabuchi lived a fairly average life with his friends Yuki Maruyama, Shou Isami, and Hideo Kosaka. One day, because Yuki was attacked by the delinquents from the neighboring high school, the four of them planned revenge. However, on the day of the plan, it became an unbelievable development. When they realized it, the neighboring high school was filled with a sea of flames. While they didn't understand what was happening, they became bombing suspects and the path they chose was to run.
- After watching a documentary about "retired" high jumper Tso Yi-Chuan (Chun Wu), Lu Jui-Hsi (Ella Chen) is so determined to meet him that she disguises herself as a boy in order to transfer to his all-male school, Ying Kai University. When Jui-Hsi gets knocked unconscious during a soccer match with Chin Hsiu-Yi (Jiro Wang), Chuan steps in to help and discovers that she is in fact a girl. He keeps his discovery a secret from everyone, including Jui-Hsi. Meanwhile, their relationship begins to blossom when Jui-Hsi convinces Chuan to return to high jumping.
- In a post-war Japan, an experienced detective takes on cases with the help of his supernatural assistant.
- Shinobu Satomi (Tori Matsuzaka) works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Yuki Inokuma (Fumino Kimura). They are a couple, but they keep their relationship a secret at work. They both hope to work at the #1 Investigation Station. One day, they meet beautiful Kara Tachibana at the site where a dead body was found. Kara Tachibana appears at the other crime scenes involving grotesque murders. She shows an interest in Yuki Inokuma. Shinobu Satomi thinks it's a bad sign for Yuki Inouma. To protect his girlfriend from danger, he struggles to find uncover the truth behind the serial murder cases and Kara Tachibana's identity.
- Follow the life of Tadayasu Sawaki as he enrolls in an Agricultural University and learn about bacteria and viruses that he alone can see with the naked eye.
- Satoru (Kanata Hongo), a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled robot to go to school for him, allowing him to interact with people and do normal things.
- Liza Luna, an alien sent to investigate planet Earth as a first step to its invasion, starts to have a change of heart when she gets overwhelmed by the cuteness of cats.
- The Special Investigation Unit, Tokyo's top-secret police force of highly-skilled specialists, dabble in espionage as they confront irregular cases with the power to shake up the country at large.
- Hana Ichii attends a school that she admired since she was a child. One day, she wakes up and finds herself locked in a cage with her classmates. They are forced to take part in a survival game using their cellphones.
- A trio of Tokyo-based auditors set out to review the accounts of the city of Osaka and its affiliated agencies. The audit is proceeding well the trio head out for lunch one day. When one of them notices that he has forgotten his mobile telephone he returns to the offices they just came from to retrieve it. The office is empty, there are neither any employees nor any furniture. What is going on?
- 1918 -1942 , A Time Period passed . Vancouver Canada , a Japanese Community and the struggles and triumphs they faced , and the Spirit of a Baseball Team that won over many, and overcame barriers . A Story with history embedded in the Museum of Baseball in Vancouver Canada.
- In a world where information is heavily censored, Kasahara Iku joins the Library Force to protect the freedom of literature and follow in the footsteps of a man who once saved her favorite book from being destroyed.
- The story revolves around two struggling comics, Takashi Komoto (Keisuke Koide) and Yohei Tanaka (Atsushi Ito), who have been performing together as a manzai comedy duo called "Boso Swimmers" for the past 12 years with very little success. The pair rarely discuss their concerns for the future together, even though they're now 30 years old with little hope of making it big. Even so, they maintain their passion for comedy and start keeping an "exchange diary" as a way of communicating with each other more frankly.
- This adaptation to a popular manga is the story of a contemporary teenager travelling back in time to the Sengoku period of the sixteenth century. There he meets with the historical figure Oda Nobunaga who instills in him the mission to deliver peace to Japan. Being aware that Oda may soon die, and the plot that accompanies the occurrence, the protagonist debates altering the outcome of what may yet come to be.
- Abe no Masahiro is the grandson of the greatest Onmyouji Abe no Seimei. His grandfather sealed his sixth sense (the ability to sense monsters) in order to protect him. He doesn't know about it until he meets Mokkun. While fighting his first monster he breaks the seal and his quest to become the next greatest Onmyouji begins.
- In a futuristic world, most people have come to be totally dependent on avatars they can use in the real world due to the Fractale System. The problems of this Utopian world are becoming apparent however as the system gradually starts failing. Some even aggressively rebel against it. Clain, a young boy, happens upon a girl, who is being chased, one day who will initiate a change in his life he could not have imagined. This girl, Phryne, leaves a gift in the form of an avatar, Nessa, who is unlike any others.
- Transmissions through the mysterious walkie-talkie begin once more as two detectives - one from the present, and the other 20 years in the past - work together to solve another cold case and clear the past detective's name. This is adapted from the 4th case of 2016 tvN drama Signal.
- Riko Shirono doesn't have any big expectations for a man in her life, but she works as a love simulation game planner. She receives a request for a new love game from app company TIMEIS. Soichiro Kurokawa is the CEO for the company. He is almost perfect, but he can't understand a woman's mind. One day, Soichiro, who likes his subordinate Momose, asks Riko to teach him about love techniques. Due to Riko's help, Soichiro and Momose get close, but Riko finds herself becoming attracted to Soichiro.
- Yukihira Natsumi is a no-nonsense, intelligent Tokyo homicide cop known as the department's "number one" case closer who nevertheless also has a bad reputation for not working well with others and pushing the limits of the law. As she sees it, her only job is bringing in the bad guys and the results are all that counts. However, she is haunted by a hostage case five years prior in which she had to pull her weapon and kill a man, which earned the ire and distrust of some of her coworkers and members of the community. To bring balance to her life, Natsumi must find a way to deal with her demanding work, the aftermath of a divorce, and caring for her young daughter-all while chasing down a serial killer who's taunting the police with serialized short stories that foretell the next murder with no time to spare.
- College graduate Yu Shinomiya is invited to the Liar Game, which has been restarted by funding from new investors. She turns to her psychology professor for help, who is none other than Shinichi Akiyama, former Liar Game champion. He advises her to ignore the invitation, but afraid of the penalty fee should she do so, she decides to participate. Soon, Akiyama is issued an invitation of his own by Fukunaga, who now works for the game. Playing on Akiyama's sympathy for the naive student, Fukunaga manages to get Akiyama to participate as well. The game this time is a diabolical version of Musical Chairs. Once again, Akiyama's cunning and ingenuity is put to the ultimate test.
- Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddendly covered by a dome shaped electromagantic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new governmemt. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.