Kin Sugai

Ryōmaden

Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episo...

Mission To Kill

Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidai...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Ohanahan

The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself.

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Trick

Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her...

Godzilla

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by D...

Handoku!!!

As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to b...

Inochi

The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-pa...

Hissatsu Shigotonin

Nakamura Mondo was relegated to a post in Hachioji from the Minamimachi Bugyōsho and he has retired from profes...

Family of Three

The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the i...

Oyaji Daiko

The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company t...

Hitomi

The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in these most r...

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Ie Naki Ko

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no...

Kwaidan

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

Watashi no Aozora

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a...

Ryoma ga Yuku

The chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to st...

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese...

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

Brother

The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of...

Tracked

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will e...

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampa...

Taiyō no Namida

The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his yo...

Hachiko

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno...

Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

Sa-shi-su-se-so!?

Lost in the Rain

It tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women. Ayako, a rampant c...

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail ya...

The Diary of Chuji's Travels

A historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary people Chuji Ku...

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurren...

Sandakan No. 8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel call...

Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with...

Beast Alley

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their...