Kei Satō

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

Pro Hunter

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Harakiri

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and...

Kusa Moeru

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

Taikouki

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...

Lone Wolf and Cub

Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted b...

水曜ドラマスペシャル

“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:...

Chotchan

The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations

The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generati...

Yasei no Shōmei

A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village, and a member of the...

Graduation

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during he...

Precious Moments

In a red-light district, Nemoto Norio (Shibata Kyohei) is indiscriminately soliciting passersby. "Would you min...

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

Honmamon

Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into...

The Water Margin

The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels...

The Return of Godzilla

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected G...

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at...

The Perfect Education

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a fai...

Concerto

Love and ambition collide when two brilliant architects compete for the same woman and the glory of success in...

Rice Curry

Set in the majestic Canadian wilderness, the drama depicts the adolescence and love of three young men who were...

Ningen no Shōmei

TV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura.

The Autumn in Tokyo

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in T...

Azumi

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of t...

Jūkyūsai

Daisuke dropped out of high school, and his motorcycle was the only thing that helped him cope with his lonelin...

Fateful Mountain Pass

Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but since he is a twin with Tokugawa Iemitsu he is not...

Taboo

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained i...

Kokugo Gannen

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establis...

Nemuri Kyoshiro

Starting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most dangerous obstacles...

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lo...

Byakkotai

Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military moderniz...

Irezumi

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During th...

The Trading Company

An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch pres...

The Sword of Doom

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral...

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...