Noboru Nakaya

Tales of the Bizarre

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple wor...

Key Hunter

Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p...

Megabeast Investigator Juspion

Juspion's parents were killed by space pirates when he was a baby. After escaping to the planet Eijin, he is ra...

Japanese Spiderman

Follow the exploits of motorcycle racer turned super hero Takuya Yamashiro, as he slings and swings, battling t...

Niji

Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are miss...

Submersion of Japan

In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautif...

Kwaidan

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

I Won't Love Anyone Anymore

Miyuki works in a bank with Sayuri and Takuya. Sayuri and Takuya plot to get the money each of them needs. Miyu...

Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun

The tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends, and subordinate...

Dakishimetai!

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

Lady Snowblood

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These crim...

Akai Unmei

The story of two girls switched in an orphanage.

Hikarugake

The drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous world of the fa...

G.I. Samurai

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's...

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leade...

Willful Murder

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued...

Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn'...

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family...

The Ambitious

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He w...

Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0

The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical...

A Wanderer's Notebook

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the...

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptio...

Utamaro's World

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. T...

Get 'em All

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to...

The Abe Clan

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

Love Letter

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him...

W's Tragedy

A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that w...

Lake of Illusions

A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running with her do...

Devil's Flute

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of int...

松本清張の聞かなかった場所

The Imperial Japanese Empire

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World...

Woman in Witness Protection

Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murde...

The Yoshida School

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the revers...

The Last Game

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Kei...

Suspicion

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business m...