Nobuko Miyamoto

Amachan

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female div...

Hiyokko

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefec...

House of Ninjas

Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions...

Honjitsu mo Seiten Nari

Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an author. This...

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an...

In This Corner of the World

18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the...

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

Set on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture during the coal industry's rise in 1955, this story follows themes...

Haha no Matsu Sato

Based on the novel of the same name by Jirō Asada. Three adult children visit their mother living in the countr...

Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion

Why did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama portraying the destiny...

Stand by Me Doraemon 2

Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...

About Sunday Night...

Old apartment complexes, rented houses in the suburbs, and cabs running through the cities. These scenes may lo...

Dondo Hare

Natsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a...

Mouri Motonari

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the e...

Manten

All About My Destiny

In 1993, the economy is in the doldrums. Fuyuki Aki works in a big electronics manufacturer as the first female...

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurren...

Sing a Song of Sex

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebria...

Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna

2012 NHK drama based on the Juzo Itami film "A Taxing Woman" (Marusa no Onna).

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl H...

Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their...

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone amo...

Supermarket Woman

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas f...

A Taxing Woman

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a susp...

Tales of a Golden Geisha

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’...

It's a Flickering Life

The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surro...

A Taxing Woman's Return

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to exp...

The Long Darkness

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress...

Sweet Home

Working on a documentary about infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro, a TV crew filming at his old home come under att...

Deaths in Tokimeki

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a j...

Woman in Witness Protection

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

The Last Dance

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

Bizan

Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized,...

Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle

"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the...

Kidnapping Blues

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, an...

Fancy Dance

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