Haruka Igawa

Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle

Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball p...

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a s...

Hanzawa Naoki

Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a...

Ochoyan

In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as...

Junjo Kirari

The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The...

Lost Man Found

Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his...

Psycho Doctor

竜馬がゆく

NHK Special: Unsolved Cases

A long-running NHK investigative strand that revisits headline-making unsolved cases with a hybrid of docudrama...

Burning Flower

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, s...

War of Traps

Parliamentary secretary Toru Washizu (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) has devoted 20 years of his life to Kosuke Inukai, a m...

After the Quake

This year marks thirty years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and four stories that are based on Murak...

Kaidan Horror Classics

Four renowned Japanese directors each adapt a supernatural short story by Japanese literary masters for the KAI...

A Moon in the Ordinary

Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in 35 y...

My High School Business

Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The tradi...

Ruri's Island

Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When...

Good Life: Thank You, Papa, Goodbye

The basis for the drama is the novel “Kashikogi” by author Cho Chang-in, which has sold 2 million copies in Kor...

The Sniffer

A consultant who has a superhuman sense of smell and assists in solving cases by smelling the scents left behin...

Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka

Adapted from the book with the same title by Ryusho Kadota, a journalist who followed the "Hikari City Mother a...

Is Love Sustainable?

After her mother dies, Kyoka moves in with her father, Rintaro, who begins to obsess over finding spouses for h...

TAGUSARI bros.

Two brothers become police officers to hunt down their parents' killer, who escaped justice by just two days be...

One Million Stars Falling from the Sky

The down-and-out detective Kanzo Dojima (Sanma Akashiya) is thinking about hanging up his job. A mysterious man...

Hard to Say I Love You

Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure...

Kodoku no kake

死ぬかと思った

Freeter, Ie wo Kau

Freeter, Ie wo Kau is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji Television and on Kyodo Television...

Walk with the Light

Sachiko and Masato Azuma, in their 4th year of marriage, had been so excited about the birth of their long-wait...

The Noble Detective

A mysterious man known only as the “Aristocrat Detective” indulges in solving cases as a hobby while leaving th...

Tokyo Sonata

The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communicati...

Funny Pets

Funny Pets is a digital computer anime series created and directed by Ryuji Masuda that was made in 2006. The s...

Waiting in the Dark

A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, th...

Dog Star

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time...

Tengoku no Soup

A woman searching for "phantom soup" and a quiet chef who lost her family. The mystery surrounding them is slow...

Dear Doctor

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally s...

The House of Glass

Despite her undeniable beauty and powerful presence, Rei is lonely all her life. One day, she meets Kazunari, a...

After the Quake

Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake explores the co...