Tsurube Shofukutei

Hanzawa Naoki

overview: Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's branch manager is Asano. He is an ambitious man and tries to shift the blame to Hanzawa. Hanzawa then attends an inquiry about the loan failure at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo. Hanzawa denies fault and promises to retrieve the 500 million yen loan. He did this because it's the only way for Hanzawa to survive as a banker.

character: Shinnosuke Hanzawa

original_name: 半沢直樹

Jun-chan's Cheering Song

overview: The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.

original_name: 純ちゃんの応援歌

Tiger and Dragon

overview: A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets.

character: Ken Nakatani

original_name: タイガー＆ドラゴン

Why I borrowed money from her

overview: Kunihiko Yamanobe, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, owes money to Yuki Tachibana, played by Kyoko Koizumi, because of his wife's credit card bankruptcy. This is the love story of two men and a woman who are brought together by a strange bond of debt!

original_name: 僕が彼女に､借金をした理由｡

Shizuka-chan and Papa

overview:
Shizuka lives with her father Junsuke, who runs a photo studio in a local shopping district. Her father was born deaf and her mother, who was also deaf, died when Shizuka was little. Shizuka has been Junsuke's ears since she was a child. Therefore, she has a habit of staring at the other person and talking with gestures.

However, this habit is perceived poorly and her colleagues at the restaurant where she works part-time do not like her.

One day, Shizuka sees Keiichi, a regular customer of the restaurant, in trouble because he can't explain himself to a shopkeeper and Shizuka helps him.

Two people who are not good at communicating normally are attracted to each other...

character: Nonomura Junsuke

original_name: しずかちゃんとパパ

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

overview: Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.

character: Keichiro Kawakami

original_name: 99.9 -刑事専門弁護士-

桃色つるべ

original_name: 桃色つるべ

鶴瓶・上岡パペポTV

original_name: 鶴瓶・上岡パペポTV

HAMASHO

original_name: HAMASHO

SanTaku

overview: SanTaku is FujiTV's annual New Year's Day special hosted by Sanma and Kimura Takuya.

original_name: さんタク

Hanzawa Naoki

character: 半沢慎之助

Kurama Tengu

original_name: 鞍馬天狗

Furuhata Ninzaburo

overview:
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo.

The series is a police detective drama starring actor Masakazu Tamura as Furuhata Ninzaburo and Masahiko Nishimura as his stereotypically bumbling sidekick, Shintaro Imaizumi. The program aired weekly and featured a guest villain each time, usually a famous talent in Japan. Pop-stars like SMAP, television hosts like Sanma Akashiya and even sports figures like Ichiro Suzuki have been featured on this program. It was one of the most popular television dramas in the history of Japanese television, having spawned several seasons and TV specials.

original_name: 古畑任三郎

The World's Astonishing News!

overview: Popular Japanese Television series, chronicling unusual or outrageous stories from around the world, most notably the United States. Many episodes deal with infamous crimes, but there are also stories about interesting individuals, notorious moments in history, tales of heroism during disasters and notable unsolved mysteries. The episodes are filmed in Japan and the United States.

character: MC

original_name: ザ!世界仰天ニュース

ヤブツル〜鶴瓶・小籔の大阪夜話〜

overview: A free-form talk variety show featuring Shoufukutei Tsurube and Koyabu Kazutoyo. The show is known for its unscripted and spontaneous conversations with a humorous and relaxed approach.

original_name: ヤブツル〜鶴瓶・小籔の大阪夜話〜

Happy!

character: サンダー牛山

original_name: Happy!

Say Hello to Black Jack

overview: Eijiro Saito is a graduate of the prestigious Eidai Medical School and is sent to Eidai Hospital as a trainee doctor. There, under the supervision of Dr. Shiratori at the surgery department, Eijiro trains hard with Dekune and Munekata. But all they seem to do is take care of menial work for low hours and low pay. So low in fact bad that they have to do part-time work at other hospitals just to make ends meet. Eijiro picks Seido Hospital, run by Dr. Hattori, for his part-time job. The surgery is like a battleground. Eijiro is very impressed by his senior Dr. Ushida and the nurse Kaori. But one night, when he is on duty, Eijiro runs from the surgery leaving a badly injured patient behind! It is the story of an intern doctor and the various problems and contradictions of the medical industry. -- TBS

original_name: ブラックジャックによろしく

ONE CHANCE 〜王者推薦 漫才No.1決定戦〜

original_name: ONE CHANCE 〜王者推薦 漫才No.1決定戦〜

A-STUDIO +

overview: ‘A-Studio’ is a live talk show in a dialogue format broadcast on the TBS network every Friday from 10 April 2009 at 23:00–23:30 (JST). It is broadcast in stereo and features closed captioning. On 3 April 2020, the programme was renamed ‘A-Studio+’ (see below).

original_name: A-STUDIO +

instagram_id: shofukuteitsurube

日本語

iso_3166_1: JP

also_known_as:
쇼후쿠테이 츠루베
Tsurube Shoufukutei

title: Kabei: Our Mother

overview: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

character: Senkichi Fujioka

original_title: 母べえ

title: Kaza-hana

overview: A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

character: Frog (voice)

original_title: 風花

title: Thirteen Steps

overview: A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

character: Sugiura

original_title: 13階段

title: Naoko

overview: Naoko meets Yusuke while staying on an island for medical treatment. Yusuke's graceful athletic figure captivates her eyes and she falls in love with him. But their relationship is soon broken after Yusuke's father dies while trying to save Naoko from drowning. The memory of Yusuke leads Naoko to the track, and six years later, they meet each other again at a Marathon competition. Naoko decides to become a manager to help Yusuke, a gifted runner, and they embark on training together to heal their sorrows from the past.

character: Tensen Nishiura

original_title: 奈緒子

title: 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie

overview: Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team specializing in criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has recently become director. One day, the firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago—concerning a poisonous wine incident.

character: Kenichiro Kawakami

original_title: 99.9-刑事専門弁護士-THE MOVIE

title: About Her Brother

overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

character: Tetsurou Tanno

original_title: おとうと

title: Dreams for Sale

overview: After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.

character: Tetsuji Dojima

original_title: 夢売るふたり

title: The Friends

overview: A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

character: Undertaker

original_title: 夏の庭 The Friends

title: Tokyo Heaven

overview: A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

character: Koorogi / Kyoichi Shirayuki

original_title: 東京上空いらっしゃいませ

title: Moving

overview: Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

character: Teacher

original_title: お引越し

title: Wind Whistle in Field, Demon Sword: Matsudaira Tadateru cutting the world

overview: Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile expired, he was attacked in a clandestine Yagyu operation believed to have been ordered by his older brother Hidetada. In order to correct his brother's true intentions, Tadateru broke the law and went all the way from Hida Province, where he was exiled, to Edo Castle. However, the Yagyu do not stop trying to kill Tadateru...

original_title: 野風の笛 鬼の剣・松平忠輝 天下を斬る!

title: America ni Makenakatta Otoko - Bakayaro Souri Yoshida Shigeru

character: Shigeru Yoshida

original_title: アメリカに負けなかった男～バカヤロー総理 吉田茂～

title: THE MYSTERY DAY

title: Cape Nostalgia

overview: Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.

title: Dear Doctor

overview: Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

title: Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

overview: The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.

title: Amalock

overview: 39-year-old Yuko is a high-achieving and proud woman whose career ambitions took her from a sleepy part of Amagasaki City, to Tokyo. When she loses her job due to her “high standards” attitude, she loses her drive to do anything and ends up retreating to her family home where she lives as a NEET with her laidback joker of a father, Ryutaro. For years, the two get along until her 70-something old man brings home Saki, his 20-year-old bride-to-be. When the younger woman shacks up with the two, a comedy of manners based, quite understandably, on a scandalised Yuko’s “you’re not my mom!” attitude ensues as the younger woman takes to mothering her but when crises occur, Yuko truly begins to evaluate just what a family can be.

title: Aka Medaka

overview: One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular rakugoka, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi.

title: Wait and See

overview: A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.

title: Noel's Fantastic Trip

overview: The film is centered around Noel, a young girl and her dog, Pup, who both live on the Planet Noel. While relaxing, Noel comes up with the idea to deliver ice cream to the sun. The two fly off and make their way toward the sun.

title: Black Widow Business

overview: Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.

title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad

overview: Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.

title: Gold Medal Man

overview: Senichi was born in 1964, when the entire nation was excited about the Tokyo Olympics. As an elementary student, Senichi won a footrace and got a taste of what winning felt like. Since then, Senichi takes part in various competitions including drawing and usually wins. He keeps struggling to win gold medals at competitions.

title: What a Wonderful Family!

overview: A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

title: Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!

overview: When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto to act as a stalking horse. Hoping the thieves will kill Tanaka and the Ninja Spies will kill the thieves. But what the Shogunate doesn't realise is that Tanaka's even more incompetent assistant Mondo is in fact the leader of a gang of revengers for hire, there motto is "Sure Death" (or your money cheerfully refunded). Mondo doesn't know that everyone knows about the secret, but they all think he does. Poor Mondo, he not only has to deal with crazed Shogunate extremists, oddball ninjas, crooks who work for the Emperor and bicycle riding foreign death squads. He also have to deal with a wife and a crazy mother-in-law!

original_title: 必殺！ブラウン館の怪物たち

title: Aiko 16-sai

overview: Aiko 16 years old is a novel by Akemi Hotta, set in Nagoya this story depicts the school life of Aiko Mita, a high school student who belongs to the Japanese archery club.

title: What a Wonderful Family! 2

overview: Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

title: What a Wonderful Family! 3

overview: At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

original_title: 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII

title: The Black Swindler

overview: There are three kinds of swindler. One, called the "WHITE SWINDLER", finds a mark and steals money. The "RED SWINDLER" preys on the other sex and steals a mark's body and soul. Then there is the "BLACK SWINDLER". Ignoring ordinary marks, targeting only the white and red swindlers, and preying on their flesh grown fat and corrupt with the money they have stolen, he is the worst of them all.  There is a boy who once became a victim of a swindler and lost his family. Later, he turns into the most hideous "black swindler" to deceive only other swindlers. His name is Kurosaki. This time, he is requested by Reiko, whose daughter is sick, to hunt down a swindler named Ishigaki, who has defrauded her of money. But, behind Ishigaki, there is actually a bigger swindle which has even destabilized the Japanese economy…

title: Family of Strangers

overview: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.

title: Sakura Guardian in the North

overview: The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.

title: The Great War of Archimedes

overview: It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

title: Strawberry Times 4: Kisaragi san shimai no gyakushū

original_title: ストロベリータイムス４　如月三姉妹の逆襲

title: Sure Death! 3

overview: Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series.  Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

title: The Curtain Rises

overview: Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo.  Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.

title: The 35-Year Promise

overview: Due to his impoverished upbringing Nishihata Tamotsu is unable to read or write. Fortunately he is supported by his beloved wife Kyouko who helps him with the things he cannot do alone. As thanks for her support Tamotsu wishes to write her a love letter, and so decides to enroll at a local evening school in order to finally learn to write.

title: Being Here

overview: After being sent away from the man she loves, Shino wanders in Osaka, waiting for him to reach out again.

title: The Boxfish and the Sea of Minamata

overview: Hakofugu (Black spotted boxfish) lacks confidence and always stays alone by the rocks, watching other fish and feeling envious. Then, one day, upon meeting Himetatsu (Korean seahorse), who has lost the way and is said to be from the sea of Minamata, Boxfish's very first adventure begins.  This film is based on the picture book "The Boxfish's Wish" (published by Kodansha), written by Sakana-kun (Fish Guy) — a Japanese marine biologist, TV personality, and illustrator.

title: Grapevine

overview: Katagiri Naoki and Kyoko are happily married when they find out that they cannot have children of them own. They decide to go with the adoption, but end up being foster parents: they will take care of children who have their own parents yet due to circumstances are unable to live as a whole family. Most of the time children have difficult childhood traumas that follow them throughout their lives. Kyoko and Naoki do everything they can to give lots of love to their foster children and prove that people do not have to be related by blood to be one united loving family.

original_title: ぶどうの木 ～里親と子供たちの愛の物語～

title: あぐら剣法無頼帖　用心棒と好色一代男

original_title: あぐら剣法無頼帖　用心棒と好色一代男

title: Kabei: Our Mother

title: Kaza-hana

title: Thirteen Steps

title: Naoko

title: 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie

title: About Her Brother

title: Dreams for Sale

title: Moving

title: The Friends

title: Tokyo Heaven

original_title: 東京上空いらっしゃいませ

original_title: 野風の笛 鬼の剣・松平忠輝 天下を斬る!

original_title: アメリカに負けなかった男～バカヤロー総理 吉田茂～

title: THE MYSTERY DAY

title: Cape Nostalgia

title: Dear Doctor

title: Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

title: Amalock

title: Aka Medaka

title: Wait and See

title: Noel's Fantastic Trip

title: Black Widow Business

title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad

title: Gold Medal Man

title: What a Wonderful Family!

title: Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!

original_title: 必殺！ブラウン館の怪物たち

title: Aiko 16-sai

title: What a Wonderful Family! 3

original_title: 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII

title: What a Wonderful Family! 2

title: The Black Swindler

title: Family of Strangers

title: Sakura Guardian in the North

title: The Great War of Archimedes

original_title: ストロベリータイムス４　如月三姉妹の逆襲

title: Sure Death! 3

title: The Curtain Rises

title: The 35-Year Promise

title: Being Here

title: The Boxfish and the Sea of Minamata

title: Grapevine

original_title: ぶどうの木 ～里親と子供たちの愛の物語～

title: あぐら剣法無頼帖　用心棒と好色一代男

original_title: あぐら剣法無頼帖　用心棒と好色一代男

Why I borrowed money from her

original_name: 僕が彼女に､借金をした理由｡

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

original_name: 99.9 -刑事専門弁護士-

ヤブツル〜鶴瓶・小籔の大阪夜話〜

original_name: ヤブツル〜鶴瓶・小籔の大阪夜話〜

Say Hello to Black Jack

original_name: ブラックジャックによろしく