Kanako Higuchi

The Private Detective Mike

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

Atsuhime

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Sa...

Masamune Shogun

Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey cond...

Detective Lovesick

He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart brok...

Toge no Gunzo

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku

A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively...

Nukata no Ōkimi

A historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two brothers, Emperor...

Amakarashan

The 57th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama. Story's settings include Kobe and Sasayama. It is a story about the conflic...

Ohisama

Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefec...

Romansu

The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first Asadora with...

Bedtime Eyes

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second ra...

Modori River

The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave t...

A Little Princess

Shōkōjo Seira is a 2009 Japanese drama television series based on the children's novel A Little Princess by Fra...

Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun

The tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends, and subordinate...

Sketchbook of Early Spring

A home drama questions the modest happiness of the ordinary petty bourgeoisie through the life of a salaryman a...

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his dau...

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural...

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caus...

Heat Wave

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has...

Manji

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky...

Ashura

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and th...

The Night of Martial Law

Achilles and the Tortoise

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remai...

Saigo no Kazoku

Casshern

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their t...

Memories of Tomorrow

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips sl...

The Oil-Hell Murder

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and...

Ronin-gai

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regai...

雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯

Karaoke Terror

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and ki...

Deaths in Tokimeki

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a j...

Letter from the Mountain

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming vill...

Time Never Stops

A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family t...

Tora-san, the Go-Between

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites the...

Shimanto River

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips...

Door To Door

Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all o...