Midori Kiuchi

Segodon

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

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern liter...

Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro

The 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of stand-up comedy...

Garden of the Wind

The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was around death on a da...

Ichibanboshi

The 19th NHK Asadora. A dramatization of the life of the singer Chiyako Sato. Michiko Godai replaced Haruna Tak...

Netchū Jidai

This light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and struggles to live...

Your Hands are Whispering

This drama is an adaptation of the manga by Junko Karube about a deaf woman and her struggles with love, family...

Ari yo Saraba

Rock 'n' roll superstar Eikichi Yazawa plays a substitute high school biology teacher whose clumsy social skill...

Kōfuku Sōdan

A light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple of sisters and b...

Golden Slumber

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Ministe...

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...

Last Letter

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is n...

Maborosi

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for mean...

The Girl in the Sun

A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then,...

Gondola

Ryo finds employment cleaning windows of high-rises. Kagari lives inside one of the buildings. Ryo and Kagari l...

The Yen Family

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of...

The Last Dance

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film....

Okoge

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

The Last Song

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pa...

Falling into the Evening

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the onl...

Shanti Days: 365 Days, Happy Breath

21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga In...

Yatsuhakamura

During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old f...

Beautiful Sunshine

A TV drama of the comic Beautiful Sunshine. It depicts the friendship and love patterns of Yusaku Takasugi, a c...

Teacher's suitcase

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school te...

0.5 mm

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which l...

The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai

A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts...

Flakes of Snow

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentm...

Like a Savage

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

A Long Walk

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a...

Karafuto 1945 Summer

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. O...

Namonaihi: A Day with No Name

A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuak...

Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

Between Women and Wives

Three Year Delivery

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to th...

For Business

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.

The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing t...