Misako Watanabe

Haru yo koi

A successful screenwriter looks back on her life when she learns her husband has cancer. A year-long series, st...

Psycho Doctor

Red Suspicion

Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hosp...

Haru and Natsu

As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the c...

Ohisama

Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set in Nagano prefec...

Kwaidan

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

Mango no Ki no Shita de

Rinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of the Pacific War....

Ichiban Daiko

The 35th NHK Asadora about a man who enters the world of popular theater.

Water Boys 2005 Summer

Water Boys 2005 Natsu is a two-part Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji Television on August 19 a...

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns...

Battleship Musashi

彼女の恋文

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme...

Take Aim at the Police Van

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...

Cat Soup Theater

23 animated shorts based on Nekojiru, aired as part of "Bokusho Mondai Boss Chara Ou"

Tattoo

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold...

The Great Passage

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compi...

Lullaby to Kill

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and...

Princess Maison

A story revolves around a 26-year-old single woman Sachi who lives in Tokyo working for a pub. She frequents a...

Midnight Diner 2

The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle d...

Youth of the Beast

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

The Milkwoman

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door...

Bread of Happiness

A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bak...

Tsugumi

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and...

Farewell, Kuro

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's gro...

The Abe Clan

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individ...

Talented Woman

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and...

In Blazing Love

An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after being sold...

The Antique

Job-hunting Daisuke heads to the Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia in Kita-Kamakura with a book signed by Natsume Sos...

Samurai Spy

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of...

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make mo...

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie

Sketches of Life

Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fu...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Sasuke and His Comedians

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wand...