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- As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
- When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.
- Nao rents her dream apartment, but things are not what they seem when she finds out she will be sharing it with high school heart throb Uehara.
- A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
- A lethargic, empathetic road movie about finding one's parents - for everyone who just wants to laze about. Having resigned itself to the fact that it will just end up on someone's plate, Gudetama just wants to be lazy all the time.
- Detective Ukyo Sugishita and his partner solve cases by just the two of them as "Special Task Unit" of MPD where demoted people belong.
- While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
- Mayuko 43, fondly remembers her happy childhood living with her parents in a waterfront house thirty years ago. A budding writer named Ryoichi lived on the property, but things changed with the arrival of teenager Yuri in the neighborhood.
- A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
- Several seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.
- 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.
- Yu Amagi was working at the lost and found center of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) when he was re-assigned to Division 12. Within the MPD, Division 12 is known as the dead-end to the career of all detectives. It is a place where no matter how glorious your past may have been, once you are sent there, you can forget about ever returning to the limelight again. However, the detectives in Division 12 are actually all excellent detectives. They just have their own idiosyncrasies and are tough to handle. Notwithstanding how their individual characters may clash with one another, they still work as a team to resolve all the tough cases assigned to them.
- With bombs implanted in their hearts, two secret agents race against time to obtain powerful information on an energy source that could save humanity.
- Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, Ritsu attempts to find his mother and be good to her before his death. But when he learns that she is leading a happy life instead, with her pianist son Satoru, he decides to take revenge on his mother. Ritsu then meets Rinka, a girl whom he happened to help in the past, and discovers she is Satoru's childhood friend.
- Story of two detectives and their relationship as father and son.
- The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa power base.
- Kiyokazu Kiyota, Shigeo Tachibana and Norio Arimura are childhood friends. Upon reaching the retirement age, Kiyokazu had to retire from his job, only to take up contract work at a Game Center. Shigeo owns an pub and used to run it until recently, having handed over the reins to his son, Kosei. Norio is a manager of a machinery equipment manufacturing plant. Back in high school, the three of them were part of the "Three Bad Boys" group. Kiyokazu is an expert in Kendo, Shigeo has a black belt in Judo, and Nori is an ex-military strategist. All in their 60s now, the trio get together to form a vigilance committee and patrol the neighborhood at night.
- Aoba Ippei, an officer from the Forensics Division, takes on a series of odd cases along with his trusty police dog, Oliver. Yet what others see as a lovable furry friend, Ippei inexplicably sees as a full-grown man in a dog suit.
- A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?
- 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.
- An elementary school girl ends up pregnant, and she carries her baby to birth with the help of her classmates.
- Machi Sangenya is an excellent real estate agent who will do anything to sell the property to her customers, including meeting their families and solving their personal problems.
- A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.
- Although he is not a formal private detective, the main character takes various investigating jobs (mostly in strip clubs). His customers are generally women and he constantly gets into trouble because of them.