Shinobu Otake

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an...

The Boy and the Heron

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from T...

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the ev...

The Secret World of Arrietty

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home fr...

PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Takeshiro Shikota is a 27-year-old pediatrician in Hokkaido, Japan. He was born and raised in Hokkaido. One day...

Audrey

Mizuki is a would-be actress who has yet to attain her goal, struggles to keep the dream in her heart alive whi...

Mizuiro no toki

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her...

The Wind Rises

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the...

Tuesday Suspense Theater

"Tuesday Suspense Theater" was broadcast every Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ) on the Nippon Television net...

Mary and The Witch's Flower

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the ne...

The Beginning of the Sea

A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms.

Zoku zoku jiken

Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts the process of...

Princess Go

Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable li...

Our Little Sister

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

Affectionate Time

This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of Hokkaido. Yukichi Wakui used to...

The Inugami Family

A series of mysterious murders over a vast inheritance at a lakeside mansion! The gold standard of mystery nove...

Hell Dogs

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of th...

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You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

A forty-year-old man has married a pretty woman 20 years younger than he is. However, with their marriage as a...

Ritual

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my bir...

I'm Sorry, I Love You

Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One d...

Dear Woman

Tamon is a young white-collar worker who has spent his entire young career as an athlete, and is accustomed to...

Still, Life Goes On

Fukami Hiroki's younger sister was killed by a friend. Hiroki then meets the killer's sister, Toyama Futaba, 15...

Semi-double

Ki-ichi Nakai acts university professor Jinguji studying psychology. For his heartless character, the universit...

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive...

Railroad Man

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife...

Iron Grandma

Twelve Months

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy wo...

Into the Faraway Sky

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town...

Mahjong Horoki

A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for...

Owl

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, th...

GO

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will no...

Before the Vigil

Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya conti...

Danjoshichi Natsu Monogatari

He brought together the Akashi family and Shinobu Otake, who later married (Imalu was born, then divorced). The...

The House of the Lost on the Cape

A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks th...

Round About Midnight

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Lin...