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- Junior high school student Matusnaga Ami is on her way home from a cultural festival when she is stopped by a middle-aged male stranger at an overhead bridge. The man says he saw her dance on stage at the festival. It was beautiful and the best. This unexpected praise gets Ami ecstatic. But her mother Akie becomes very concerned after hearing this and even makes a fuss by calling the police to the house. Several days later, Ami happens to see the same man again and learns that he works part-time at a small bakery called Kokodake no Panya along a desolate shopping street. It seems that this man Kizaki Shuji had been hospitalized for a compound fracture for almost six months and moved from his hometown to this town in Tokyo at the invitation of an acquaintance Hanamiya Kyoko to work for free as social rehabilitation. Ami does not think he is a bad man like her mother suspects. She gradually begins to open up to him through their conversations. Then one day, she hears about Kizaki's circumstances from the bakery owner, Ueno Hiroshi. In fact, Kizaki lost his family of eight in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake five years ago and his emotional scars have still not been healed. This is the story of the aftermath and rebirth through the unlikely interaction between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl.
- During the summer vacation season there is a university student who works part-time at a octopus restaurant. He helps a high school student who was being chased by the yakuza thugs one day. It turns out that she is the daughter of a yakuza boss. She has a complicated family relationship because her mother has run away from the same yakuza boss. The girl has an ill sister. She cares for her younger sister, which makes her father cross. She concocts a plan.
- Iori Igarashi works as a radiographer at a general hospital. He has been depressed, because An Amakasu, whom he loves, has decided to travel abroad to Washington Medical University to learn more as radiologist. The members of Radiation House encourages Iori. One day, An learns that her father is in serious condition. Her father was the only practicing doctor at a small clinic on a remote island. When An arrives, her father tells her to be a doctor who sees patients as a person and not a disease before he passed away. An decides to stay on the island because of a patient that her father cared about. A massive typhoon soon hits the island and a landslide then occurs. An unknown infectious disease spreads afterwards on the island. Iori knows that An is struggling on the remote island and he makes a decision for An and the residents of the island.
- The tragic events that led up to the murder are thoroughly covered in a flashback.
- The government has established an adult high school for virgins aged 30 and above to counter the decline birth rate issue in Japan. Hideto Arakawa is an elite who graduated from Tokyo University and he will be attending the school with his director Kansuke Gonda.
- Kazuya Takano is a lawyer who previously worked as a surgeon. He is a thorough rationalist and is a genius when it comes to thinking and reasoning. Takano was invited to join the prestigious Shidanzaka Law Office where he will solve numerous difficult cases with his team.
- Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago. The case was about a poisonous wine incident.
- 11-year-old Yusuke and his classmates camp in the woods and see a strange light. They discover a small metallic object like a robot which talks, calls himself Tetra and knows Yusuke's name. Tetra can create wonderful gadgets but actually has to save the world with Yusuke's help from extraterrestrials with bad intentions.
- Akiho Takeda is assigned to #3 investigation team for The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. On her first day at work, a burglary takes place at a jewelry store in Shibuya. The case though is taken by the #1 investigation team which Akiho hoped to join. Nevertheless, Akiho goes secretly to the jewelry store where the theft took place. Later, a safe at a jewelry store in Roppongi is broken into. Stolen from the safe is the diamond called "Besu". The "Besu" is one of three diamonds that makes up the "Kuraida Family's Three Sisters". The other two diamonds are "Ani" and "Kyasari". The diamond "Ani" was stolen from the jewelry store in Shibuya, that occurred a few days earlier. Several people believe the two diamond thefts were done by the same person(s), but Akiho mentions the techniques used by thieves are different. Yet, Akiho believes there must be a connection between the two cases.
- Counterfeit money which no one is able to see through, is not counterfeit money any longer. The sophisticated counterfeit million yen bills which a homeless man picked up is being recirculated into the public and starts to ravage Japan in the same way a virus would. The fundamental value of money is overturned and in order to build a world not ruled by money, a man has just initiated an outrageous scheme. To find the source of the counterfeit notes, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department summons a genius appraiser, a specialist on counterfeit money. At the same time, Detective Erika Miyazono goes undercover at a jewelry store to investigate the store's connection with money laundering. During her investigation, she becomes aware of a big money investor, young millionaire Nonomiya and tries to approach him. And so she comes to know his true purpose and becomes involved in his plan.
- Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented?
- Hanawa's home had six friends come from different countries, under the request of the students, these foreign friends admitted Chibi Maruko and other student's home. Andrea from Italy, who lived in Maruko's home. Although they get along with a variety of cultures and backgrounds, they gradually became friends. Maruko and Andrea have developed a romantic love story.
- Shiga Michinari was a well-respected deputy editor-in-chief of a major publishing company "Shukan Shuncho". However, his reputation and happiness hit the bottom when his son Kensuke was involved in a stalker's murder case and later committed suicide. People around Michinari suddenly became cold to him. He was demoted and abused by the company and reporters. In addition, his daughter Nanami became violent while his beloved wife couldn't handle the pressure and left home. Michinari could no longer stand the situation and decided to investigate the incident which Kensuke was involved in.
- Katsuhiro Tamura and Misuzu Sumiyoshi are employees of a legal document firm. They have very different personalities and don't always get along well, but gradually develop good relations while working together on various legal cases.
- Yumi is a 23-year-old office worker. Out of the blue, she is fired from her job. A few days later, wearing kimono, she is rushing to an interview for some part-time work at a publishing company. She was at a friend's wedding that went on a bit longer than expected and she has no time to change from her kimono. In another room at the publisher, popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long.
- It's the beginning of a hectic wedding party. The best day of the newlywed is interrupted by various unpredictable events.
- Why merely say 'sorry' when you could truly make amends by hiring the expert to do the right thing? The Apology King, one Mr. Kuroshima, is advertising his service to an audience at a theatre. You can use him to apologize for your past mistakes. What proceeds is six of the specialist's more prominent cases and how they end up leading into one prominent theme.
- A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
- The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is a high profile team of officers trained to handle cases in kidnappings, hostage situations, corporate blackmail, and other highly volatile criminal situations. Their goal is to prevent crimes before they take place. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) is the first female officer to join SIT. At first she encounters difficulties in the male-dominated environment, but soon gains the respect of her fellow officers with her uncanny analytical skills and ability to stay calm in the most heated situations.
- When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish, he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons, his own friends and ultimately himself.
- A Japanese boy is smitten and finally persuades his mother to give him permission to travel to northern Thailand in order to become an elephant trainer. He would be the first Japanese to become one should he succeed. He develops a bond with the giant creatures and soon enough is back in Japan where he does more for the animals. He also meets his girlfriend.
- A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...
- How about conducting battle, but with flowers in lieu of weapons? There were monks who did ikebana, or Japanese flower arrangement, following a war. There was once an actually famous monk in Kyoto, Japan circa 1594 with exemplary ikebana skills. A shogun, or lord, invites him to do ikebana for him. Responding to the request the monk goes to Gifu castle, but a below average performance leads to shogun's wrath.
- Keisuke Miyahara (Haruma Miura) oversleeps on the day of his entrance exam for Tokyo University. To postpone the exam starting time, Keisuke Miyahara sends an email to the school warning of a bomb. His plan works and he is able to take his exam and passes. On the day of his entrance ceremony, a man named Hiroshi Tanaka (Yuu Shirota) appears in front of Keisuke Miyahara and threatens him.
- "Hei no Naka no Chuugakou" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.
- Mai, a school student, refuses to go to school. Her parents are living apart, so her mother sends her to stay with her grandmother. Her grandmother gives Mai training as a witch and also teaches Mai important values on life itself.
- Ryoko Kamizuru, a female detective with a brilliant mind and a mastery of disguise, teams up with Nobukiho Takayama, a man with an IQ of 140, to solve various cases in the most daring ways, defeating the "impossible" enemies through "impossible" methods. At the same time, the duo confront their own past conflicts - Nobuhiko dealing with a conflict with his family, while Ryoko has no recollection of an incident that led to her disbarment.
- It is an Asahi TV drama based on the popular 70's manga. Oka Hiromi (Ueto Aya) on her first day at Nishi High School is captivated by the beauty, loveliness and strength of backhand of a local starlet of female tennis - Reiko Ryuzaki (Matsumoto Rio). In pursuit of her idol she joins the tennis team. The story of passion, friendship and rivalry begins. Later on, Hiromi, although being a greenhorn at tennis, manages to catch the attention of Munakata Jin (Uchino Masaki), who acknowledges both her talent and commitment, and agrees to coach the school's tennis team.
- Kadowakis' house has a fig tree in the yard. Mr Kadowaki is a construction worker who finds a job in Tokyo. Mrs Kadowaki is a housewife. He keels over and dies one day necessitating the woman to move in with their daughter and finding a job. She starts a relationship with her employer and they move back to her old house as a couple. The tree is still there yet the cast of characters are undergoing even more turbulence.
- She is down and out. When it rains it pours. It is a total K.O. Yet, she is extended a helping hand both when she least expected it and from the unlikeliest source imaginable. She is allowed to dig her way out of the hole she has been cast into, but it may not be a straight path upwards.
- 52-year-old Saenai is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a super suit by a strange old man and reluctantly takes over as superman. With a wife from hell Enko and two adolescents, Saenai is stuck between world peace and domestic problems. Life does not go well just by becoming superman. What is justice, peace and happiness?
- More and more problems are created by the popularity of social media. In response to these problems caused by social media's influence, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates the Yubitai Department. Detectives, including Wataru Banjo, are assigned to work there. The detectives in the Yubitai Department are far from those thought to be on the path of success in the police detective.
- This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in 1945, when the country was under General Headquarters. It depicts sweat and tears of the staff and singers at that time struggling to bring music to the people who have suffered in the war.
- The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
- It is no secret that dogs are superlative of superlatives when it comes to life and existence on this planet so it should be no surprise a film, or anthology, on these noble beings would tug at heart.
- In 1933, a brilliant if eccentric detective (Mansai Nomura) is asked to help solve a murder on a stylish passenger train before the police arrives. The trouble is that every passenger is a potential suspect, yet they all have alibis.
- For the past year, the 4th grade 3rd class section at Aikawa Elementary School has changed teachers 3 different times. The latest teacher to arrive for Class 4/3 is Haga Ineko (Michiko Kichise), a temporary hire. Haga Ineko isn't confident, but she attempts to deal with the students and parents with a combination of softness and strictness. Although class 4/3 looks like an ordinary classroom, the students are considered monster children .
- Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
- Story of two detectives and their relationship as father and son.
- Kurama Rokuro is a private detective. He is a detective story aficionado, and a mystery geek. He believes in ghosts and UFOs. He hates the sight of blood and dead bodies. Actually he has a sharp insight and a creative imagination, but his reasoning is always just a guess. When he wrongly accuses people of a crime, he sends them a gift with a note "I'm sorry about the mistake". His mission is to use all up the airtime (33 min.) to solve a quite simple case which must be settled in 5 min. His wild guesses and imagination increase the number of suspects, and his ambiguous reasoning turns the cases upside down. Can he finally discover the offender?
- Tsukahara Sawako, a newcomer in a big company, starts going out with a superior, only to realise that the latter is married. Due to this scandal, she is demoted to Shyomu ni, a department for the hopeless. The department consists of 5 basic members. Tsuboi is the leader of the department's girls. Tokunaga is the money-lover and speaker of the group. Rie is the fortune-teller. Kana is the beautiful target of all men. The last is the incapable department head. You could count the cat(s) in as well! It's such an undisciplined department. While the rest of the company looks down on this department, which provides miscellaneous services such as toiletries and facilities maintenance, Tsuboi leads her girls proudly. She squabbles with anyone who insults the department, and comes up with unorthodox plans to deter those who try to wipe the department out. These "untouchables" even save the company from losses occasionally. Based on an original manga, this 12-episode TV series takes a comical, anime-like approach to telling the story of women who have been abandoned by the higher society, but retains dignity and character.
- Ryotaro Shinmachi is a 37-year-old former Japanese national football player who has recently retired and becomes a new member of the society. Although Ryotaro has embarked on his second career, he struggles to tell his daughters that he has retired and still cannot accept his retirement. Due to his love and respect for sports, Ryotaro is now working as an agent at sports management company "Victory" where he manages active athletes and learns about their stories. While listening to their stories, Ryotaro slowly reflects on his life and has to decide whether to choose football or a new life.
- Mihane Yoshiyama (Yuina Kuroshima) is a 3rd grade high school student. She is a member of the photo club at her school. The day before her summer vacation, she smells a lavender scent in the science lab and she suddenly gains the ability to leap through time. Shohei Fukamachi (Fuma Kikuchi) is Mihane's classmate. He actually came from the year 2122 and is a researcher. Shohei lost a drug that allows him to go back to 2122. In the meantime, Shohei hypnotizes those around him and lives as a high school student. Mihane and Shohei become to have feelings for each other.
- The story takes place in 1955, ten years after losing in WWII. It tells the story of the government officials at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), who are carrying out their mission to make Japan as affluent and wealthy as the western world. The story revolves around Shingo Kazakoshi, otherwise known as "Mr. Ministry of International Trade and Industry", and unfolds around the battle between the "industry supporters" who want to protect the national industry, and the "trade supporters" who are aiming for free trade to globalize the country.
- As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where the forensics labs come into play. Mariko Sasaki is a highly talented forensics scientist who must dodge stereotypes, as well as disparaging comments from veteran detectives.
- A girl, less than 3 years old, travels reportedly alone, over 1 kilometer (each way) to buy 3 items from the store and bring them home.
- A sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.
- This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of Hokkaido. Yukichi Wakui used to work as a successful businessman at a prestigious trading firm. He worked for several years in New York as well as other cities around the world. When his wife Megumi died at the age of 47 in a car accident three years ago, he decided to leave the company. He was only57. When Megumi died in the accident, her 18-year-old son Takuro was at the wheel. Yukichi declined an offer to switch to an affiliate company after his retirement, and moved to Megumi's hometown Furano, Hokkaido instead. There he started a small coffee shop named "The Forest Clock." Unbeknownst to Yukichi, Takuro is working as an apprentice pottery maker in Biei-a town located 50km away from Furano. His father hasn't spoken a word to him since the accident. One day, Takuro meets Azusa, the lovely Forest Clock employee who has a habit of accidentally breaking the shop's plates and cups. It doesn't take long for the two to fall in love. Will the wall of ice between father and son ever melt? Adding color to the drama are the conversations between Yukichi and the tourists and café-goers who drop in the shop.
- An elite and aloof schoolgirl is in fact severely withdrawn and anxious about communicating with others. An ordinary schoolboy befriends her and helps her to open up and talk with people.
- Two high school students, Mitsuhashi Takashi and Ito Shinji, set out to become the strongest delinquents in Japan.
- Shuji (Kamenashi Kazuya) is one of the most popular guys in school. He tries to avoid Akira (Tomohisa Yamashita), because of his constant annoyance. But Kame isn't just like that. At home, he's a total different person. He goes to a willow tree every morning, because he made a pact to go to it every morning. One day, when going to the tree, he is extremely shocked to see it gone. And suddenly, he sees a girl emerge from behind the stone where the tree once stood upon. She jokes about how it wasn't the best place to kill herself, but he is terrified and runs away. The next day, at school, he seems to be his popular self again, and the girl turns out to be a new student...in his class!! She is bullied by the mean girls, especially Bando. Shuji and Akira then decide to produce the girl, who is given the name "Nobuta", to one of the most popular girls in school!
- Ukyo heads a major medical scheme which will be of global importance to Manpan and he's due to meet an important customer soon. When word reaches the company that organized criminals may attack, crime prevention training becomes paramount.
- Momoko Sakura is an elementary school student who likes popular idols and mangas. She is "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 little town.
- The story is set in the devastated area of Kamata, Tokyo, in 1945 just after the end of the war. Horikita plays Shimomura Umeko, the youngest of 3 siblings whose father is a doctor at a university hospital. Compared to her outstanding sister Matsuko and brother Takeo, she lacks self-confidence, but an incident makes her determined to become a local doctor. However, her path is fraught with failures.
- The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.
- Biblia Second-hand Bookstore has been quietly open for business in some corner of Kamakura. Its owner is Shinokawa Shioriko, a young, pretty but introverted girl who is extremely shy around strangers and cannot interact well with people she meets for the first time. However, when it comes to knowledge of old books, no one can to compare to her. Talking about books makes Shioriko forget her shyness. In fact, she becomes eloquent and passionate. She unravels the mysteries and secrets associated with many old books with her vast knowledge and keen eye.
- Love Generation revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship as squabbling colleagues before falling in love.
- As the year 2000 nears, the Y2K bug threatens Manpan's systems, so a team of experts have been drafted in to help. Chief Inoue mysteriously vanishes and a ransom is demanded. There are rats in the building, but how can Shomuni trap them?
- A story of high school students. Ninomiya Kazunari and Shibutani Subaru act as genius student Katsuyuki and naughty student Haru respectively. Takagi Saya plays Katsuyuki's mother, while Kato Ai plays a girl loved by the genius student. When the mother introduces her new husband Sosuke (Iwaki Koichi) to Katsuyuki, Katsuyuki meets Sosuke's naughty son Haru (Shibutani Subaru.
- A search for a book leads Kasumi to an area of town he hasn't been to in years. He decides to read in a café, but only a "pure" one will do.
- Two souls were drawn to each other without any possible escape from their doomed fates. It was in an era when the country was divided in the north and the south. A legendary woman "Shiren"(Hiromi NAGASAKU) who was born to a family of assassins. A young sword fighter "Ragi"(Tatsuya FUJIWARA) who looked up to Shiren with admiration. News was brought to the north that said the King of the South "Godai"(Katsumi TAKAHASHI) has revived who once was assassinated by Shiren. Shiren was once again ordered by "kyougoku"(Arata FURUTA), a high-ranking vassal of the North, to assassinate Godai. Shiren was upset about Godai being still alive whom she believed she had killed. Ragi who sensed Shiren's distress volunteered to accompany her on the mission. Shiren's cold heart started to melt by seeing Ragi's determination to be there for and support her. Finally the moment to attack Godai comes. It was the moment when an astonishing truth was revealed to the two who had shared their love by that time.
- The story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration.
- "I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful.
- It chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by becoming a farmer. During the war, going to the beauty salon was considered a frivolity, so many such businesses went bankrupt as Japan suffered from the energy spent as all the yen was fueled into the war effort.
- A 60 year old retired salary-man finds new purpose in exploring the food of his neighborhood. Aided by his fantasy companion, a samurai who inspires him to boldly experience this new chapter of his life.
- Toddlers, aged two to four, are followed by cameras as they are sent on their first errands by themselves. From delivering forgotten items to shopping trips, the little ones get to make their first independent journeys into the world.
- Motoko is a 34-year-old unmarried credit union employee who moves into a boarding house with 3 other women after her best friend and co-worker Mariko embezzles 300 million yen.
- Rookie police detective Tsutomu Madarame and legendary thief Smoky Crow team up as forbidden buddies to tackle a variety of difficult cases.
- Set in an old prestigious Ryotei in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young Itamae struggles his life, love and work while the long-lasted ryotei and the beloved old town face the change to survive the time.
- This is a continuation of the drama. It starts with Hiromi in New York, challenging an American tennis player at the Women's Singles Semi Finals of the International Youth Cup. Will she win the cup? This special episode is all about this.
- The Star Leo is a luxury cruiser shuttling between Japan and Hong Kong. On this cruise, seven top chefs known as "culinary kings" have been invited for a major event in which guests can savor a fancy dinner that they cook up.