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- Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.
- The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.
- A salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons.
- The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members Naoki Asawa, Shiho Komiyama, Kengo Murase, Yasushi Aoyagi, Hideaki Yazawa and new member Ryo Shindo join the special investigation team.
- A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist settles down in Australia. When a Japanese student visits him with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything
- A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
- When photographer Ishida first sees Sada, the wife of a new acquaintance, his photo shoot with Sada turns quickly into a steamy affair of mind-blowing proportions.
- A young swordsman is forced into a tough situation. He must resolve a potential power struggle that involves his adolescent crush Fuku.
- Halu (Kimura Takuya) is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game. Aki (Takeuchi Yuko) is a typical OL (office lady), and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Aki's friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Halu for the first time. After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Aki, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Halu, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part. The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Aki and Halu, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party. Hyodo (Sato Koichi) has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Halu has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately, he can't stand Hyodo's way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Hyodo criticizes the former coach's strategies. Whenever Halu and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel; consequently influencing Halu's behavior during games. Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Halu to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him. Aki is hurt, Halu is irritated, and his teammate Hotta (Sakaguchi Kenji) can't stand seeing Halu like this
- A group of young Japanese men were secretly sent to England to study the science and engineering that Japan was lacking, and return after five years or so to sew the seeds for modernising Japan. The Emperor would have had them executed if he had discovered what was occuring. The knowledge they returned with started Japan on the road it is still travelling. .
- Ame Sakurai is in junior high and lives with her father, who is a butterfly collector in search of the Troides Magellunus. One fateful day, he decided to take a trip to Taiwan in hopes of catching the elusive specimen. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and Ame is left with only memories of Father. Memories that seem to have allowed him to return as a spirit guide for Ame.
- Henshin tells the story of Junichi, a young boy who is forced to go through a life-saving brain transplantation. By his side, his girlfriend Kei is watching over him all the time. Junichi seems to recover complete from this operation, but while Kei is thrilled that he is back by her side, Junichi senses that all is not well. Something inside of him seems to have changed and his feelings for Kei are beginning to fade. Though he wants nothing more than for the two of them to be happily together, Junichi realizes that something must be done. He makes a bold decision to protect the young woman he loves that will prove to everybody, especially himself, what his true feelings for Kei really are.
- This is a story about the detectives at the Jinnan Police Station in Harajuku, Tokyo. Azumi Tsuyoshi, head of the Criminal Affairs Department trusts his staff and usually does not interfere with their investigation. However, one day, a dead body is found in the neighborhood. Toyo Ota, a neighbor, is spotted screaming into a microphone towards the victim?s house. Azumi who thought this was strange felt the need to investigate this case himself. He starts talking to her and they become friends, but the next day, Toyo surprises him by saying that she is the one who killed the woman and surrenders to the police.
- New teacher Miwamoto is transferred to an elementary school in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Many natural and manufactured obstacles come at them when students and teacher begin to raise fireflies. With help and heart from the entire class, including a student who has lost his mother, the fireflies dance in the night.
- The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware store in Osaka City while doing literary work. One day, she falls ill due to overwork and falls in love with Tokunaga Kenjiro, the doctor who examines her. Kenjiro and Machiko marry. But Kenjiro, who lost his first wife to illness, lives not just with his five children, but his brother, sister, and parents. In a comical and heart-warming way, the drama depicts Machiko's struggle with the new family while pursuing her career as a novelist.
- A virgin with rare disease only have 5 times chance to have sex in his life before he lose his sexual desire forever.
- How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is deprived of his love, career and dream. His desperate situation gradually changes when he finds true love with Yumiko, who always stands by him. To protect the love that he has finally found, Naoki begins writing a letter to Takeshi - The touching story of a man who was powerless against his irreversible fate, but still tried to overcome it in the quest for his dream.
- Shingo Saku is the Police Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters. Within the force, he is known as the youngest top management and his nickname is "The Tactician". One day, the corpse of a man called Yasuyuki Okamoto was discovered in an area under the jurisdiction of the West Marunouchi Police Department. The policemen in charge had ruled the death as suicide and were about to close the case when the MPD Director, Toshiya Yanaka, stepped in and set up a team to investigate the death. Shingo was called in to head the investigations. The First Division's Section Chief, Makoto Shimano, and the 13 staff under him were assigned to the case. Understandably, they were all upset that they had to report to a non-career (someone who goes on administrative career path instead of detective work), thus Shingo's only ally is his chauffeur-turned-detective, Daichi Yashiki. To top it all off, the West Marunouchi Police Department's men were also up in arms to have had their judgment questioned. Shingo has his hands in trying to bring everyone together and work as a team.
- Nearly a shot-by-shot remake of the 1935 film of the same title by director Sadao Yamanaka.