Min Tanaka

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of...

Perfect Days

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes...

Ryōmaden

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

47 Ronin

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous...

A Life

When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his girlfri...

Mare

Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes...

House of the Owl

At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads thr...

Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection

Barakamon

A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coas...

Love That Makes You Cry

Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the bi...

Gu Gu the Cat

About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her w...

Gu Gu the Cat

About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her w...

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request fro...

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking i...

Tekkonkinkreet

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

Miracles

A comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves all living creat...

The 19th Medical Chart

In Japan's newest medical specialty, general practitioner Tokushige Akira listens closely to his patients' stor...

Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story

Fukuyadou Honpo is a traditional Kyoto sweet shop with 450 years of history. This romantic drama depicts the ca...

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth

A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and stru...

To Give a Dream

The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear...

Sheep in the Box

Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a constr...

Kokuho

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

Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with...

Children of the Sea

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and...

The God of Risk

Satoshi Saigyouji worked in crisis management for General Electric in the USA and the Japanese government. He i...

Modest Heroes

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an inv...

Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the bruta...

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower...

The Eternal Zero

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. Duri...

Forgery It's tough being a man

The Outsider

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Goodbye Newspaper

A huge Japan newspaper company decides to sell itself due to failing sales. An eager buyer for the acquisition...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. En...

The Great War of Archimedes

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest...

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures liv...