Ken Watanabe

Alice in Borderland

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they mu...

Inception

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offere...

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who...

Batman Begins

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that p...

Transformers: Age of Extinction

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to co...

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of...

Segodon

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsum...

Back of Father

A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

The Creator

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special force...

Godzilla

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to J...

Transformers: The Last Knight

Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secr...

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him...

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent...

Masamune Shogun

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

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Living in Ikebukuro — an area infamous for juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto Majima becomes associated with a...

Isle of Dogs

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island use...

Hanekonma

Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her sister and broth...

Unbound

In 18th-century Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo rises from a poor background to become a leading publisher. Despite polit...

Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a gei...

NHK WORLD PRIME

NHK WORLD PRIME brings you a world of mainly documentaries, and more. Tune in to see special select programs on...

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of t...

TRUE COLORS

A top fashion photographer who, after being diagnosed with a life-altering illness, must overcome overwhelming...

Gokenin Zankuro

Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodygu...

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries.

Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko

Based on the novel by Jirō Asada, the TV movie depicts the lives of the Shinsengumi warriors during the turmoil...

Kokuho

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous...

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...

Waga Machi

Based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular town near downtow...

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a...

The Fire Still Burns

This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. Th...

Vessel of Sand

Eiryo Waga is well-known musician who has begun a rapid climb to stardom, but he must keep his terrible past a...

Shanghai

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers...

Letters from Iwo Jima

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told f...

A Tale of Two Truncheons

Based on Kazuo Koike's extensive manga (over 110 volumes), this Edo-period drama follows an unlikely pair of la...

Kensuke's Kingdom

A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Micha...