Masahiro Motoki

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Clouds Over the Hill

Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November...

Giri/Haji

Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf T...

Awaiting Kirin

After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to...

Asura

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottl...

Tekkonkinkreet

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megaco...

Man of Destiny

A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. governmen...

Dakishimetai!

Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke ha...

The Only One I Can't See

A private lawyer (Hiroshi Mikami) who is infatuated with the widow of the Mamiya conglomerate (Emi Shindo) and...

A Wednesday Love Affair

Departures

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the l...

Kimi to Deatte kara

The drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how he and the woman...

Prince Shotoku

In the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state...

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his...

Natsumeke no Shokutaku

A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love and tears of a...

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist par...

White Love Story

A tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after an accidental m...

Heat Wave

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

On the Single Bed Tonight

Tomonaga Akiyuki and his wife Yu have been married seven years. Akiyuki is a graphic designer, and is quite hap...

Shall We Dance?

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking...

The Emperor in August

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meet...

The Long Excuse

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring...

Gonin

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and th...

Prince of Happiness

This is the tragic love story of Shuhei and Umi. Shuhei is the only surviving son of a hospital director. He lo...

Gemini

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targe...

Touch

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark...

The Bird People in China

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival...

The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing

The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's n...

The Big Bee

Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power comp...

The Longest Night in Shanghai

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramed...

Fancy Dance

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling...

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a g...

The Mystery of Rampo

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious...

Anata Dake Mienai

Koi no Paradise

Spy Sorge

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of Wor...