Ema Fujisawa

biography: Born in 1982, Ema started her career as a magazine model while she was attending Sofia University in Tokyo. She made her TV debut as a lead in the popular NHK series Tenka in 2004, and her screen debut in Kidan in 2005.

Tenka

character: Tenka

original_name: 天花

original_language: ja

All About My Destiny

overview: In 1993, the economy is in the doldrums. Fuyuki Aki works in a big electronics manufacturer as the first female in its main career track. But unlike the male employees, she is not even allowed to test her ability and feels frustrated by her current situation. Meanwhile, Aki learns that her colleague and ex-boyfriend Sato Yasushi is marrying Otsubo Arisa, a junior who works in an administrative position, and she feels unsettled. Aki is favoured by Yasushi’s mother Sachiko, but she tells her that they broke up two years ago. She feels a void for not being able to spread her own wings in the male-dominated world, along with an anger at the male species. So she could not accept the feelings of the straightforward Yasushi. On the morning of the wedding ceremony, Aki receives a letter from Sachiko...

original_name: 私という運命について

Veterinarian Dolittle

overview: Tottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase is 'pet care means business'. He is the director of his animal clinic and rescues not only 'voiceless' pets but also helps their owners, who lack understanding and caution, with their problems and worries. Working with him is animal nurse Tajima Asuka. Hanabishi Masaru is Dolittle's rival, a charismatic vet and director of another animal hospital who has not only an opposite personality but also a different stance towards pet care.

character: Rumi Fudou（不動 ルミ）

original_name: 獣医ドリトル

Inspector Daimajin

overview:
A picaresque suspense story in which the ace of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, who has a strong sense of justice, uses his strong arms to defeat criminals who cannot be brought to justice, and uses evil to defeat evil.

This work is set several years later in the same world as the manga " Kurokochi " by the same author, and characters such as Seike reappear.

character: Hirayasu Ayako

original_name: 警部補ダイマジン

Miss Pilot

overview: Haru Tezuka's parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds it difficult to get a job. Haru then notices an application guideline from airline company ANA (All Nippon Airways). Haru, who never thought of working in the airline industry, decides to take a test for the airline company. She first attends a company presentation by ANA. There, she sees elite persons who have dreamed of becoming pilots for lengthy periods of time and airplane enthusiasts. She becomes overwhelmed by them. Haru is indecisive about whether she wants to go through with it, but she manages to barely pass her test. Now, Haru wants to become a pilot, but what awaits for her is harsh training.

character: Kanoko Saegusa（三枝 かのこ）

original_name: ミス・パイロット

title: Lovely Complex

overview: Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani, a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right?

character: Risa Koizumi

original_title: ラブ★コン

title: Faraway Heaven

overview: Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.

original_title: 天国はまだ遠く

title: Inferno

overview: Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the truth and understand the infernal happenings of which there are many.

original_title: 奇談

title: Kekkon shiyou yo

character: Shiori Katori

original_title: 結婚しようよ

title: Classmates

overview: A romance occurs via email, between Jun Shibahara, the ace in his swimming team, and an ill girl.

original_title: 同級生

title: Gymnasium Baby

overview: Jun, the ace in his swimming team, lost against his rival, Naoki, at the summer college tournament. But since then there is a special feeling between them...

original_title: 体育館ベイビー

title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Spring Special

overview:
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2008 Spring Special" presents five tales.
 1. Sakki Yori mo Ii Hito - starring Ito Hideaki.
 2. Kore……Mite…… - starring Toda Erika.
 3. Hinodedori Shouten Machi Ikiiki Day - starring Funakoshi Eiichiro.
 4. Sukitōtta Tsuitachi - starring Kitano Kie.
 5. Flashback - starring Sakai Masato.

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 ～2008春の特別編～

title: Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai

overview: The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.

original_title: 濃姫

title: Far Away, So Close

overview: 27-year-old Sakumi Shimura lost the last 10 years of her memory from a car accident. Sakumi can only remember events up to when she was 17-years-old, but she accepts her fate and tries to stay positive. Nevertheless, Sakumi is bothered by the loss of her memory. She tries to remember with the help of Yoshihiko, who thinks of himself as her boyfriend and her friend from their high school days.

character: Hiroko Takeuchi

original_title: 遠くでずっとそばにいる

title: Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down

overview: Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with themes of seppuku, duty, and loyalty to one’s masters and the shogun, we see very little in terms of action. Instead, the film focuses on the inner thoughts and struggles of the protagonist—who is ordered to perform a ritual suicide—his wife, and their entire household, all leading up to the final moment.

original_title: 陽が落ちる

place_of_birth: Tokyo

title: Lovely Complex

title: Faraway Heaven

title: Inferno

title: Kekkon shiyou yo

title: Classmates

title: Gymnasium Baby

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 ～2008春の特別編～

title: Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai

title: Far Away, So Close

title: Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down

Tenka

media_type: tv


Teppei Koike

biography: Teppei Koike (小池徹平) is a Japanese singer and actor. Koike and Eiji Wentz (ウエンツ瑛士) forms the singer-songwriter duo WaT. The duo released their debut single Boku no Kimochi (僕のキモチ) in 2005.

Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~

overview:
Keisuke Yoshimaru is a screenwriter, but instead of working, he is responsible for all household chores. On the other hand, Keisuke's wife, Nami, is a popular novel writer under the name "Ririko Kōsaka". Nami is the breadwinner with outstanding fame and income.

Keisuke is somehow satisfied with his current life, but, one day, the main writer of a prime-time drama suddenly drops out, and Keisuke was given the opportunity to write again. Although Keisuke starts writing with full of expectations, he begins to be swayed by various problems.

character: Takashi Sumi

original_name: 書けないッ!? 〜脚本家 吉丸圭佑の筋書きのない生活〜

Seven Day Lover

original_name: ダブルベット

Kirei 〜 The Woman Who Met Up With God 〜

overview:
There is “another Japan,” which is divided into three countries and has been in ethnic conflict for 100 years. In the middle of the conflict, a young girl (Ikuta Erika) was kidnapped and confined by a group calling itself “National Liberation Army.” However, the girl has escaped from them to the outside world for the first time in 10 years.  She befriends a girl whose father runs a business recycling artificial soldiers made from soybeans. They meet the group of boys including Harikona (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who has the ability to make flowers bloom.  Keeping watch over Kegare is her adult self, Misa. This empathetic play transcends time and space. As past, present, and future get jumbled up, Kegare finally confronts an unpleasant memory that she should have forgotten.

(Source: @floren646730)

original_name: キレイ〜神様と待ち合わせした女〜

Searchin' for My Polestar

original_name: 天体観測

Drop-out Teacher Returns to School

overview: Based on a true story from Hokkaido’s Hokusei Yoichi High School, the first high school in Japan to accept high school dropouts nationwide and the subject of a successful documentary, this drama will follow a former gang member, dropout and graduate of the school who returns as a teacher. We will follow him as he helps graduating students out into the world. The teachers and students will, as you would expect, confront all the issues of youth and society today. At this school, there are no compromises, no lies. This drama will move you as both students and teachers face a variety of issues head on. This is a moving story that is created by people coming together and learning to believe in each other.

character: Motoya Murase

original_name: ヤンキー母校に帰る

Water Boys

overview: Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members in each team. There were 32 swimmers in this drama who were carefully chosen to fit their roles, but none of them had ever done synchronized swimming before.

character: Iwao Iwata

original_name: WATER BOYS

劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

original_name: 劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero

overview: The mystery of how Kazama Kimichika became so ruthless and unmatched will be revealed.  Kyojo Zero depicts the time before he was assigned to the police academy, when he was working as an instructor in charge of training new detectives...

original_name: 風間公親－教場0－

Shibatora

overview:
No matter how you look at him, Taketora Shibata (Teppei KOIKE) is just a quiet, ordinary junior high student. He looks so vulnerable that bullies try to rip him off on the streets, but he is actually a police detective and an expert swordsman in kendo.

Taketora has a special to see the "hands of death" around people whose life is nearing the end.

One day, Taketora is assigned on undercover operations. He sneaks into a high school, a maid cafe and a juvenile detention center... With the cooperation from his various friends, he gets to the bottom of the matters.

character: Taketora Shibata

original_name: シバトラ

Wagemon: Nagasaki Tsuyaku Ibun

overview: Set in Nagasaki, an international city during the Edo period, the story depicts the verses who have supported the Dutch trade in the shadows. Main character is Sota Ijima.

original_name: わげもん～長崎通訳異聞～

Iryu: Team Medical Dragon

overview: Ryutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical care team that worked in refugee camps. After his return to Japan, this amazingly talented surgeon starts work at a university hospital, where he uncovers one case of corruption after another and takes on a lot of powerful contenders in this heroic drama. The struggles between the hospital and the patients, the infighting among the hospital staff, and the patients who get involved in those struggles are all depicted in a realistic manner in a drama that has an overwhelming feeling of speed. Here’s a human drama depicting a thrilling battle between life and death, a totally new, outstanding form of entertainment.

character: Noboru ijuin

original_name: 医龍-Team Medical Dragon-

Dragon Sakura

overview: A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

character: Hideki Ogata

original_name: ドラゴン桜

After School

overview:
Each of four very normal high school first-year students - who are very close friends - tries to find their own answer to the question:

"The earth will perish on Christmas Eve on December 24th of 2004. What will you do until that day comes?"

character: Komiya Kaname

original_name: 放課後。

Take Away Love, Summer

character: Kiriyama Tsubaki

original_name: 奪い愛、夏

Reverse

overview:
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in their university days, but Yoshiki Hirosawa died on a snowboarding trip 10 years ago.

One day, he meets Mihoko Ochi at a coffee shop. He is strongly attracted to her.

Kazuhisa Fukase goes to a professor’s retirement celebration at a university. There, he meets Kosuke Asai who went snowboarding with Yoshiki Hirosawa on that fateful trip. Journalist Toshio Ogasawara also appears there. He has been investigating Yoshiki Hirosawa's death.

character: Yoshiki Hirosawa

original_name: リバース

Steel Frame

overview: Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the giants. After working diligently for three years at a construction site, Heita unwillingly transfers to a sales department where he becomes a part of the illegal collusion -- to limit open competition and obtain high-price public works within the colluding parties. He is torn from conducting unlawful action to save his company, yet deep inside wishing to abide by the law to follow his justice. What will his answer be?

character: Heita Tomishima

original_name: 鉄の骨

Konkatsu Deka

overview: 35-year-old Hanada Yoneko is a detective of Ryogoku Police Precinct who is looking for a marriage partner. She swings between love and justice as she pursues cases with her partner, Fujioka Tsutsuji. Yoneko will not turn a blind eye to crime. In addition, she wants to be happy. But for some reason, all the handsome men she likes turn out to be criminals.

character: Fujioka Tsutsuji

original_name: 婚活刑事

Are You Ready? Hey You Girl!

overview: Towa Furuya is a handsome high school student, but he has never had girlfriend. Towa and his friends get involved in various love cases taking place at his school.

character: Takatsugu Masaki

original_name: 覚悟はいいかそこの女子。

Ohitorisama

overview: 33-year-old Akiyama Satomi is a history teacher at the prestigious all-girls high school she once attended. She has earned the nickname "ohitorisama" (meaning "one person") for her perfectionism and capability to handle any work by herself. At the same time, the name also refers to her lack of romance. One day, a young man named Shinichi arrives at the school as a temporary instructor. He's ten years younger than Satomi, has only worked part-time jobs, and has neither money nor status. Although the other female teachers and students find him cute, he is completely not Satomi's type... or is he? Will love blossom between this unlikely pair?

character: Shinichi Kanzaka

original_name: おひとりさま

name: Rikon Shinai Otoko -Sareo to Oyome no Damashi Ai-

overview: Okatani Wataru, who was an ace reporter in the social affairs department of a major newspaper company, witnesses his wife having an affair and decides to get a divorce. Although he makes steady preparations to gain custody of his daughter, a talented lawyer he consults with tells him that his chance of winning is only 10%. Instead of going ahead with the divorce right away, he works hard with his partner, a detective, to gather evidence of his wife’s affair in order to earn the right to be the rightful caretaker of his daughter.

original_name: 離婚しない男 ―サレ夫と悪嫁の騙し愛―

Gokusen

overview: Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

character: Keita Takeda

original_name: ｢ごくせん｣

Stage Play "Journey to the West"

overview: Born from the stone egg of Mount Huaguo, Son Goku (played by Ainosuke Kataoka) wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Realm, earning the wrath of the Jade Emperor (played by Shin Tamura) and is imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain.

original_name: 舞台「西遊記」

I want to say I love you

overview:
Centers on a 39-year-old pharmacist. She lives a peaceful life, doing the job she loves. However, the man she has loved for a long time has gotten engaged to another woman. On her way home from a drinking party with her colleagues, a younger man appears in front of her, and somehow, they start to live together out of the blue. Meanwhile, she meets another man who gives her peace of mind with his honesty and kindness. As she starts to realize the true meaning of happiness and the importance of being loved by someone, something begins to change within her…

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

character: Sato Kohei

original_name: 愛してるって、言いたい

Amachan

overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.

character: Hiroshi Adachi

original_name: あまちゃん

ボーダーライン

character: 카와바타 아키라

original_name: ボーダーライン

My Relentless Wife

overview: Mizuki Arisa and Gori star as husband and wife in this TV adaptation of a popular Internet blog. Oniyome Nikki is a true account of the life of a husband who is abused daily by his wife. The drama will depict the exchanges between the couple - the misery and the (unintentionally) comic moments.

original_name: 鬼嫁日記

Guilty: Kono Koi wa Tsumi Desuka

overview: Sayaka Ogino works as an editor at a women's fashion magazine. She does her job well and enjoys her work. Sayaka Ogino has a personality that is sincere and honest. She is married to Kazuma, who works at advertising agency. They have been married for 6 years. Kazuma appears to be a perfect husband. He is kind, understands Sayaka's work, and shares housework with her. One thing that bothers Sayaka about her husband is that he does not seem to want to have a baby.

original_name: ギルティ～この恋は罪ですか？～

Naniwa shônen tanteidan

original_name: 浪花少年探偵団

The Unknown Me

overview: Mei Haneda wakes up with a missing year of memory. As she discovers a fiancé, job, and a best friend she thought was dead, her life unravels. Labeled a murder suspect, Mei must uncover the truth to prove her innocence.

character: Kanata Nishijima

original_name: 私の知らない私

name: Missing Persons Investigation Unit: The Missing Truth

overview: Former detective Tatsuhiko Kinosaki forms a private team to search for missing persons overlooked by the police, while secretly seeking to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of his wife.

original_name: 失踪人捜索班 消えた真実

name: DOPE Narcotics Control Department Special Investigation Unit

overview: Rookie officer Saiki Yuto joins a secret narcotics unit and teams up with his tough instructor to take down a dangerous new drug spreading across Japan.

character: Shunji Tokura

original_name: DOPE 麻薬取締部特捜課

Wagaya no Mondai

overview:
Consists of 4 episodes based on the compilation of short stories.

Based on the compilation of short stories by Okuda Hideo.

character: [Husband]

original_name: 我が家の問題

Shonan☆Natsukoi Monogatari

overview: The drama is about two unpopular boys named Nonomura Yosuke and Kawai Akira, who meet at a beach house after searching for a place to fit in. Usuda Asami and Kinami Haruka will also co-star in this bittersweet summer love story.

original_name: 湘南☆夏恋物語

The Ransom is Kidnapping

overview: A kidnapped girl's parents are blackmailed by the abductor into kidnapping another child to save their own daughter.

original_name: 身代金は誘拐です

普通话

小池彻平

biography: 小池彻平，日本男歌手、演员，出生于日本大阪府大阪狭山市。2001年日本Junon杂志第14回JUNON SUPER BOY金奖。2002年跟Wentz瑛士组成乐队WaT，翌年二月以地下乐队身份推出首张单曲《卒业TIME》。2018年与交往3年的女友永夏子入籍。

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English

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english_name: English

日本語

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english_name: Czech

普通话

小池徹平

biography: 小池徹平，日本男歌手、演員，出生於日本大阪府大阪狹山市。2001 年日本 Junon 雜誌第 14 回 JUNON SUPER BOY 金獎。2002 年跟 Wentz 瑛士組成樂隊 WaT，翌年二月以地下樂隊身份推出首張單曲《卒業 TIME》。2018 年與交往 3 年的女友永夏子入籍。

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Український

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english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
小池 徹平
Koike Teppei
WaT

title: ミュージカル「るろうに剣心　京都編」

original_title: ミュージカル「るろうに剣心　京都編」

title: 1789 -Lovers of the Bastille-

overview: A beautiful love story that bloomed in Paris and scattered in the Bastille. France at the end of the 18th century, where the populace struggled with poverty and the aristocracy drowned in luxury. After his father was murdered by an aristocrat, Ronan, a farmer, fled to Paris and joined the revolutionaries. He gains passionate friends such as Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins, and burns hope for a new era. (Toho 2018)

character: Ronan Mazurier

original_title: 1789　－バスティーユの恋人たち－

title: Lovely Complex

title: Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories

overview: Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji  of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.

title: Death Note: The Musical

overview: A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.

title: Psyche

overview: One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow.

title: Kids

overview: Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.

title: Gokusen: The Movie

overview: A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series.

title: Portrait of the Wind

overview: Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.

title: The Homeless Student

overview: Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.

title: Genkai in a Black Company

overview: After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.

original_title: ブラック会社に勤めてるんだが、もう俺は限界かもしれない

title: Japanese Salaryman NEO

overview: Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nakanishi and his team are struggling to come up with ideas when Shinjo suggests “sexy” as a possible marketing buzzword.

original_title: サラリーマンＮＥＯ　劇場版（笑

title: Sabuibo Mask

title: Hontô ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 15th Anniversary Special

overview: Seven scary true horror stories in this 15th anniversary special. The stories are: S Douzan no Onna (Woman from Copper mine S); Satoru-kun; Hannin wa Dare da (Who's the Crmininal?); Sasoi no Mori (Forest invitation); Ude wo Choudai (Give me your arm); Takushi Doraiba wa Kataru (A story from taxi driver) and Yami e no Shikaku (Vision to the Darkness)

original_title: ほんとにあった怖い話 15周年スペシャル

title: Lock-On Love

overview: An endearingly inept guy who has killer looks but zero experience with girls falls in love with a hard-to-get beauty.

original_title: 覚悟はいいかそこの女子。

title: Meters Away, Worlds Apart

overview: A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.

original_title: 半径1メートルの君 〜上を向いて歩こう〜

title: Water Boys 2

overview: Water Boys was a major sliver screen hit in 2001 that took the Japanese public by storm in depicting high school boys who pour all the passion of their youth into becoming synchronized swimmers. The year 2003 saw the start of a new TV series of the same name that maintained the overall atmosphere of the film while making new developments, and becoming a summer hit with the amazing synchronized swimming feats it depicted. And then in the summer of 2004 a second season of the series with fun and a sense of pathos opened, this time with a new town as the setting and depicting the passion, friendship and love of 32 boys who are absolutely nuts about synchronized swimming.The fascinating synchronized swimming scenes are more powerful than ever. In addition to the scenes of a public performance in the last installment, the show has loads of excitement and thrills throughout.

title: Death Note: The Musical

overview: A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.

title: The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -

overview: In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.

original_title: コンフィデンスマンJP ロマンス編

title: Little Ghostly Adventures of Tofu Boy

overview: Long time ago in ancient Japan, human beings could still see Yokai monsters and were afraid of them. However, as time passed and civilization and enlightenment progressed, people started forgetting about them... Though a son of the leader of all Yokai monsters, Mikoshi Nyudo, an adorable looking monster, Tofu Boy, has no talent in scaring the human beings. He is always scolded by his father and laughed at by his monster friends. One day, he decides to go on a journey to find out about the meaning of his life as a Yokai monster and to see his mother he's never met before.

title: MieMie ~She Can See~

overview: Misato loves food from all over the world and sees ghosts everywhere. She gently pets a fox spirit and believes that each person has their own unique ghost. As in a clichéd film, Misato falls for the handsome Takuto, who can read minds.

title: ミュージカル「ある男」

title: ミュージカル「るろうに剣心　京都編」

original_title: ミュージカル「るろうに剣心　京都編」

title: 1789 -Lovers of the Bastille-

original_title: 1789　－バスティーユの恋人たち－

title: Lovely Complex

title: Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories

title: Death Note: The Musical

title: Psyche

title: Kids

title: Gokusen: The Movie

title: Portrait of the Wind

title: The Homeless Student

title: Genkai in a Black Company

original_title: ブラック会社に勤めてるんだが、もう俺は限界かもしれない

title: Japanese Salaryman NEO

original_title: サラリーマンＮＥＯ　劇場版（笑

title: Sabuibo Mask

original_title: ほんとにあった怖い話 15周年スペシャル

title: Lock-On Love

original_title: 覚悟はいいかそこの女子。

title: Meters Away, Worlds Apart

original_title: 半径1メートルの君 〜上を向いて歩こう〜

title: Water Boys 2

title: Death Note: The Musical

title: The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -

original_title: コンフィデンスマンJP ロマンス編

title: Little Ghostly Adventures of Tofu Boy

title: MieMie ~She Can See~

title: ミュージカル「ある男」

Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~

original_name: 書けないッ!? 〜脚本家 吉丸圭佑の筋書きのない生活〜

Kirei 〜 The Woman Who Met Up With God 〜

original_name: キレイ〜神様と待ち合わせした女〜

劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

original_name: 劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編

Wagemon: Nagasaki Tsuyaku Ibun

original_name: わげもん～長崎通訳異聞～

Are You Ready? Hey You Girl!

original_name: 覚悟はいいかそこの女子。

original_name: 離婚しない男 ―サレ夫と悪嫁の騙し愛―

Guilty: Kono Koi wa Tsumi Desuka

original_name: ギルティ～この恋は罪ですか？～

original_name: 失踪人捜索班 消えた真実

original_name: DOPE 麻薬取締部特捜課


Nami Tamaki

biography: Nami Tamaki is a Japanese pop singer. As a teenager under the Sony Music Japan label, she had four top-ten albums, two of which reached number one. Her singles were used as theme songs for anime shows such as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, and D. Gray-man, as well as being representative of the J-Pop music trend. She has various commercial tie-ins with the anime and games industry and has also performed in stage musicals and a movie.

name: Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple

overview: Young Mabel West is the daughter of mystery writer Raymond West, who wants her to lead a normal life. Rebelling against this, Mabel wants to be a great detective, and sets out for London to become assistant to none other than Hercule Poirot, the great Belgian detective who resides there. She finally wins the reluctant approval of her father, and embarks on an exciting life of mystery and suspense - his only demand being that she occasionally spend some time with her great-aunt, Jane Marple, in the small village of St. Mary Mead.

character: Bridget (voice)

original_name: アガサ・クリスティーの名探偵ポワロとマープル

Argevollen

job: Theme Song Performance

overview: The story takes place in a world where two countries, Arandas and Ingelmia, have been warring against each other for a very long time. Tokimune, a young man belonging to Independent Unit 8 of Arandas, saves a girl named Jamie when she is attacked by enemy forces. In order to survive, he pilots the new mech Argevollen and fights. The new mech Argevollen is defined by its U-Link system wherein the Argevollen molds to its pilot's mind and cannot be piloted by anyone else. This customization allows the pilot to envision what the mech will do in his mind to use it, rather than physically move and steer it.

department: Sound

original_name: 白銀の意思 アルジェヴォルン

Battle Spirits: Gallet's Revolution

overview: Centuries after the events of Saga Brave, a third race called the Mauve has emerged alongside Humans and Mazoku. Identified by their purple blood and immense intelligence, the Mauve are shunned by the other two races and are viewed as a threat to the peace of the world. Having experienced this prejudice first-hand, a teenage Mauve named Galette Revolt journeys forth to find a way for all races to understand each other by playing Battle Spirits. However, other factions from each race aim to maintain the peace/reform the world through more nefarious ways...

original_name: バトルスピリッツ 赫盟のガレット

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

overview: Cosmic Era 71. Mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies known as PLANTs. The story revolves around a young Coordinator named Kira Yamato, who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a neutral space colony secretly developing mobile suits for the Earth Alliance is attacked by the PLANTs' military force, ZAFT.

original_name: 機動戦士ガンダムSEED

Español

biography: Es una cantante de pop japonés. Cuando era adolescente, bajo el sello Sony Music Japan, tuvo cuatro álbumes entre los diez primeros, dos de los cuales alcanzaron el número uno. Sus sencillos se utilizaron como temas musicales para programas de anime como Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny y D. Gray-man, además de ser representativos de la tendencia musical J-Pop. Tiene varios vínculos comerciales con la industria del anime y los juegos, y también ha actuado en musicales y una película.

iso_639_1: es

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Spanish

title: Lovely Complex

overview: Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani, a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right?

character: Nobuko Ishihara

title: NAMI TAMAKI Best CONCERT "My Graduation"

overview: This concert film was filmed at Nakano Sunplaza on March 31st, 2007 and marks Nami Tamaki's final performance as a high school student.

character: Self

title: NAMI TAMAKI 2nd CONCERT Make Progress ~road to~

overview: Concert film took place at Zepp Tokyo on July 29th, 2005.

original_title: 玉置成実 2nd CONCERT Make Progress ~road to~

title: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: case. Adra Castle Separation

overview: A stage play adaptation of the first Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files light novel. The stage play would initially run from December, 2019 to January, 2020 and would eventually receive a Blu-ray and DVD release on July 8th 2020.

character: Luviagelita Edelfelt

original_title: 音楽劇「ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 -case.剥離城アドラ-」

title: Nogizaka 46 Ver. Musical "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" 2019

overview: Musical featuring members of Nogizaka46 as characters from the Sailor Moon manga and anime franchise. 2019 featured new members playing the lead roles.

character: Queen Beryl

original_title: 乃木坂46版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019

overview: Musical featuring members of Nogizaka46 as characters from the Sailor Moon manga and anime franchise. It is produced as part of the celebration surrounding the 25th Anniversary of Sailor Moon.

original_title: 乃木坂46版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」

place_of_birth: Wakayama-ken, Japan

title: Lovely Complex

media_type: movie

original_title: 音楽劇「ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 -case.剥離城アドラ-」

original_title: 乃木坂46版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019

original_title: 乃木坂46版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」

original_name: アガサ・クリスティーの名探偵ポワロとマープル

Argevollen

original_name: 白銀の意思 アルジェヴォルン

Battle Spirits: Gallet's Revolution

original_name: バトルスピリッツ 赫盟のガレット

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

original_name: 機動戦士ガンダムSEED

known_for_department: Sound


Risa Kudo

Angels with Broken Wings

overview: A miniseries starring famous actresses, based on the short story collection "Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi" by the author Yoshi. This dark drama has a different story for each episode, as the name of the series "Angels With Broken Wings" hints, the common theme is women who have lost their way in life. The series touches subjects like prostitution, peer pressure, gambling, theft and isolation.

character: Aiko

original_name: 翼の折れた天使たち

The Pride of the Temp

overview:
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before.

This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.

character: 村瀬 早苗

original_name: ハケンの品格

Spiritual Teacher, Kyoko Odagiri

overview: Kyoko Odagiri is a beautiful and charismatic clairvoyant. She is also popular and admired by her fans. Today, Kyoko appears on a popular tv show and display her psychic abilities alongside a popular actor. Her performance goes off splendidly with the audience applauding her performance enthusiastically.

character: Saito Izumi

original_name: 霊能力者 小田霧響子の嘘

Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

title: Zombie Hunter Rika

overview: When typical Japanese high school student Rika skips school to visit her grandfather, she fails to take into account the fact that his remote village is infested with the living dead.

character: Rika

original_title: 最強兵器女子高生　ＲＩＫＡ

title: Lovely Complex

character: Chiharu Tanaka

title: Sleeping Flower

character: Miyuki Tsuboi

original_title: スリーピングフラワー

title: Love Letter So-renka

character: Erika

original_title: ラブレター　蒼恋歌

title: Eve in Love

overview: Set within the Tokyo DisneySea theme park, the love lives of various people are told. Gakkun has been preparing for his accounting license exam. Nao Nanami works in the gift wrapping section of a department store.

character: Teacher Yuki

original_title: 恋するイヴ

title: 工藤里紗「藍色～DeepBlue～」

overview: 2007 release

original_title: 工藤里紗「藍色～DeepBlue～」

title: 工藤里紗 RISA SEASON

overview: 2006 release

original_title: 工藤里紗 RISA SEASON

title: Zombie Hunter Rika

original_title: 最強兵器女子高生　ＲＩＫＡ

title: Lovely Complex

title: Sleeping Flower

title: Love Letter So-renka

title: Eve in Love

title: 工藤里紗「藍色～DeepBlue～」

original_title: 工藤里紗「藍色～DeepBlue～」

title: 工藤里紗 RISA SEASON

Spiritual Teacher, Kyoko Odagiri

original_name: 霊能力者 小田霧響子の嘘

known_for_department: Acting


Shizuyo Yamasaki

Daughter of Lupin

overview:
Hana comes from a family that has been thieves for generations. Hana refuses to become a thief and she wants to live a normal life. She currently works as a librarian and she is dating Kazuma, who works as a public officer. She hears that Kazuma's family are all public officers. One day, Hana visits Kazuma's family. She discovers that Kazuma's family, including Kazuma, are actually all police officers. Hana gets involved in a case and falls into trouble.

Based on novel "Rupan no Musume" by Dai Yokozeki.

character: Tomoko Koguchi

original_name: ルパンの娘

Cicada Boy

overview: Okawa Yuka is living out the daily motions of life but doesn't understand her reason to keep living.  After a confrontation with a co-worker, she decides to end it all but fails when she stops herself from squishing a cicada. That cicada returns the favor by transforming into a man, named semi, for seven days because he thinks it will make her happy. The downside is, he has no idea how to live as a human.

character: Iwamoto Haru

original_name: セミオトコ

Hiyokko

overview: The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?

character: Shigeko Koiwai

original_name: ひよっこ

Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!

overview: A heartwarming romantic drama set in Ofunato City in Iwate Prefecture. The story revolves around Yukari, a city hall employee who hosts a matchmaking-party held on a train running along the beautiful Sanriku Coastal Area. One day, she happens to live with her brother-in-law who resolves to cook an original ramen noodle.

character: Shirakizawa Kimiko

original_name: 恋の三陸 列車コンで行こう！

Sakura no Oyakodon

overview: Sakura runs a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo with a hidden "meeting place" where those in need can gather, share their stories, and enjoy a free meal. Offering comfort and support, Sakura creates a space for healing and connection.

character: Takasegawa Taki

original_name: さくらの親子丼

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

overview: After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).

character: Guest

original_name: 絶対に笑ってはいけない

Waraeru Koi wa Shitakunai

overview:
The story takes place in a department store, where Shizu-chan plays an elevator girl and Komoto plays the manager of a cake shop. The screenplay will be handled by Osamu Suzuki, who has previously written for the variety show "SMAP x SMAP. Tokyograph

Source: Wiki

character: Suzune Nagai

original_name: 笑える恋はしたくない

Otasukeya Jinpachi

character: Ponta

original_name: お助け屋★陣八

Sasurai Onsen Endo Kenichi

overview: Endo Kenichi is rumoured to have announced his retirement from acting. Staff head somewhere to uncover the truth, only to see a shocking sight. Endo has concealed his identity and been working at little-known as well as famous hot springs in various regions across the country as a male attendant. He pokes his nose into the affairs of the imperfect beauties he encounters there and runs around trying to solve their problems. However, he loses his heart to them and gets involved in trivial incidents. Why on earth is he doing this?

original_name: さすらい溫泉♨遠藤憲一

name: In Lilac Bloom, The Path to a Veterinarian

overview: Set in the vast wilderness of Hokkaido, this awkward yet endearing coming-of-age story follows a girl who used to be socially withdrawn as she strives to become a veterinarian while facing the reality of life and death.

character: Teacher Hisatsune

original_name: リラの花咲くけものみち

Private Banker

overview: Private banker Anno Koichi is tasked with helping Iida Kumiko, the owner of a struggling dango shop after she falls victim to a financial scam.

character: Emiko Aiba

original_name: プライベートバンカー

Perfume's chandelier house

overview:
An unpredictable situation comedy with a mixture of scripts and improvisations!

Three daughters who came to Tokyo from Hiroshima who live together in a "Chandelier House" in Tokyo.

Today, a strange visitor asked me, and now what will happen...

original_name: Perfumeのシャンデリアハウス

プレミアMelodiX!

original_name: プレミアMelodiX!

頑張る人応援バラエティ 体育の時間

original_name: 頑張る人応援バラエティ 体育の時間

also_known_as: Shizu-chan しずちゃん 南海キャンディーズ

title: Rock'n'Roll Housewives

overview: Mieko is a housewife with some problems. Her husband is indifferent to her and her daughter Sayako refuses to go to school. One day, Mieko meets Kaori who is divorced. Mieko and Kaori worked at a same company years ago. Kaori tells Mieko that how she was swindled out of money by a man and, because of this, Mieko loans money to Kaori. Due to the loan, Mieko, herself, begins to do part-time work at a convenience store. While at work, Mieko catches a shoplifter Yukimi in the convenience store. It turns out, Mieko and Yukimi get along great. Mieko, Yukimi and Kaori decide to go to a karaoke room together. At the karaoke bar, the women hear the song "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple and decide to form a rock band!

original_title: ウタヒメ 彼女たちのスモーク・オン・ザ・ウォーター

title: Maniac Hero

overview: Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves.  As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.

character: Aunt

original_title: ヒーローマニア－生活－

title: ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han

overview: Five outstanding researchers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s crime lab are gathered and given powers for special investigations in response to diversified modern crimes. They are called the Scientific Task Force or ST for short. The new, elite Inspector Yurine Tomohisa becomes the ST’s commanding officer. Meanwhile, a shooting rampage breaks out. Five people are shot and one of them, a female company employee, dies. The media reports this as Japan’s first case of indiscriminate shooting. The ST is mobilised and Yurine heads to the crime scene...

original_title: ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han

title: Out Burn

overview: Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money.  One day, Kasumi (Riho Takada), who is the daughter of Senma-gumi gang's leader (Toshiyuki Nishida), is found stabbed to death. As this threatens to pit gang against gang, Eiko and the police have to hurry and find her killer.

character: Satomi Ochiai

original_title: アウトバーン マル暴の女刑事・八神瑛子

title: Meters Away, Worlds Apart

overview: A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.

original_title: 半径1メートルの君 〜上を向いて歩こう〜

title: Aozora Cut

overview: Hairstylist Shota Kawamura (Kento Hayashi) lives in Paris, but returns to Osaka when he learns his mother Sumire Kawamura (Yoshiko Tokoshima) his mother has passed away. He has a strong dislike for his father Goro Kawamura (Kotaro Yoshida) who neglected his mother. His father runs the small hair salon "Aozora." After his father injures himself, Shota Kawamura must fill-in for his father at Aozora and work employee Haruka Nakai (Rina Kawaei). Shota Kawamura learns that the business is experiencing financial difficulties.

original_title: アオゾラカット

title: Lovely Complex

character: Rie Koizumi

title: Hula Girls

overview: Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

character: Sayuri Kumano

original_title: フラガール

title: Kanna's Big Success!

overview: Kanna is extremely beautiful. No one could pass by without having a second look. The truth is, she was so ugly that she spent her entire savings on whole-body plastic surgery. Since she became beautiful, Kanna has been leading the happiest life, until someone shows up to reveal her makeover.

character: Kabako

original_title: カンナさん大成功です！

title: Danganronpa The Stage 2016 ~Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei~

overview: The first stage play based on the original Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc video game.

character: Sakura Ogami

original_title: ダンガンロンパ THE STAGE 2016 ~希望の学園と絶望の高校生~

title: The Pearl Legacy

overview: Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.

original_title: 親のお金は誰のもの 法定相続人

title: 青空との約束～味の素冷凍食品の果てなき挑戦～

original_title: 青空との約束～味の素冷凍食品の果てなき挑戦～

title: 文福茶釜

original_title: 文福茶釜

title: テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜

original_title: テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜

title: Rock'n'Roll Housewives

original_title: ウタヒメ 彼女たちのスモーク・オン・ザ・ウォーター

title: Maniac Hero

title: ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han

title: Out Burn

original_title: アウトバーン マル暴の女刑事・八神瑛子

title: Meters Away, Worlds Apart

original_title: 半径1メートルの君 〜上を向いて歩こう〜

title: Aozora Cut

title: Lovely Complex

title: Hula Girls

title: Kanna's Big Success!

original_title: ダンガンロンパ THE STAGE 2016 ~希望の学園と絶望の高校生~

title: The Pearl Legacy

original_title: 親のお金は誰のもの 法定相続人

title: 青空との約束～味の素冷凍食品の果てなき挑戦～

original_title: 青空との約束～味の素冷凍食品の果てなき挑戦～

title: 文福茶釜

title: テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜

original_title: テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜

Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!

original_name: 恋の三陸 列車コンで行こう！

Perfume's chandelier house

original_name: Perfumeのシャンデリアハウス

頑張る人応援バラエティ 体育の時間

original_name: 頑張る人応援バラエティ 体育の時間


Kitaji Ishikawa

秘書のカガミ

job: Director

department: Directing

original_name: 秘書のカガミ

Jidankoshonin Gota Keshi

overview: Shirai Torajiro (Nishino Akihiro), nicknamed Byakko ('White Tiger'), is a former diplomat whose hair turned white overnight after he was subjected to tremendous physical abuse. He dislikes people and is a loner, but during his time as a diplomat, he was trained in areas such as negotiation techniques and behavioural psychology, and conditioned to be the trump card in political diplomacy. Assisted by Sakura Ayano (Kutsuna Shiori), a freeter, Shirai applies his negotiation skills to penetrate the lies of those who have maliciously created trouble, and free people from the depths of despair.

original_name: 示談交渉人ゴタ消し

普通话

iso_3166_1: TW

also_known_as:
石川北二
いしかわ きたじ

title: Lovely Complex

overview: Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani, a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right?

original_title: ラブ★コン

job: Screenplay

title: The Match Girl

overview: Rin (Sumire Sato) is a girl who sells matches. The buyers of the matches can fulfill their dreams by lighting the match, but they are also playing with fire. Based on manga series "Match Shoujo" by Sanami Suzuki (first published 2014 in monthly seinen manga magazine Young Ace). "Match Shoujo" is motivated by the short story “The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Andersen and published in 1845.

department: Writing

original_title: 燐寸少女 マッチショウジョ

place_of_birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

title: Lovely Complex

title: The Match Girl

original_title: 燐寸少女 マッチショウジョ

known_for_department: Directing


Kazuya Konaka

biography: Kazuya Konaka is a long-time Japanese action director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the Ultraman franchise with Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Nexus. He is also the brother of writer Chiaki J. Konaka (Ultraman Gaia, Digimon Tamers).

Astro Boy

overview: Astro is a robotic boy created by Dr. Tenma to replace his late son. When Tenma destroys his laboratory and shuts down Astro, the Ministry of Science revives him and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th-grade student who occasionally helps keep renegade robots from causing harm.

original_name: ASTROBOY 鉄腕アトム

Ultraman Orb: The Origin Saga

overview: The story chronicles upon the past of Gai Kurenai and Jugglus Juggler, the original series' main protagonist and antagonist, who were once heroes fighting on the side of light, facing Dr. Psychi and his army of Bezelbs.

original_name: ウルトラマンオーブ THE ORIGIN SAGA

My Little Lover - Minami Kun no Koibito

overview: Shun'ichi Minami possesses good looks and does well academically in high school. Chiyomi Horikiri is a bright girl who likes dancing. They were childhood friends and also their first loves, but after Shun'ichi Minami's father disappeared they hardly talk. On a storming night, Chiyomi Horikiri has an argument with her parents over her future course and leaves home. While trying to avoid the rain, Chiyomi Horikiri wishes that she go back to her childhood. Suddenly, Chiyomi becomes 15 cm tall. Shun'ichi Minami happens to see tiny Chiyomi Horikiri. She tells him that she doesn't want anyone else to see her, and Shun'ichi Minami takes her his home.

original_name: 南くんの恋人〜my little lover

Cellphone Investigator 7

overview:
Seeking an escape from his mundane life, high-schooler Keita Amishima stumbles into the secret life of an agent of UNDER ANCHOR - a covert organisation combating cyber terrorism. Keita isn't alone, as he is partnered with an A.I. - the Phone Braver "Seven".

Together, Keita and Seven work to counter cyber crimes, all the while dealing with the machinations of a rogue Phone Braver, "Zero One".

original_name: ケータイ捜査官7

Ultraman Dyna

overview: As humanity begins migrating beyond Earth, a new Ultraman named Dyna arrives and bonds with defense organization GUTS' newest recruit, Shin Asuka, to protect a colony on Mars.

original_name: ウルトラマンダイナ

Ultraman Nexus

overview: The TLT is a covert international anti-monster unit established secretly to combat Space Beasts, mysterious monsters that are out to attack humans in the year 2009. One of the TLT's new recruits, Kazuki Komon, is attacked by one of them prior to reporting for duty. However, he is saved by a silver giant that he names "Ultraman". What no one knows is that the silver giant is an Ultraman — to be precise, Ultraman Nexus, ready to fight the Space Beasts to save the planet Earth.

original_name: ウルトラマンネクサス

Ultraseven X

overview: Ultraseven X is the 23rd entry in the Tsuburaya Productions' long-running Ultra Series. It is a revival of the 1967 classic Ultra Seven, and is the first in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra hero series to be exclusively for an adult audience and in wide screen high-definition format. The show first aired on October 5, 2007 at 2.15am on CBC and 2.25am on TBS.

original_name: ウルトラセブンX

Iine! Hikaru Genji-kun

overview: Saori Fujiwara comes back home after work. She opens a bamboo blind and burns incense. She purchased the bamboo blind and incense while in Bali. With the relaxed setting, Saori Fujiwara takes a nap, but, suddenly, a man dressed in clothing from the Heian period appears in front of her. She talks to him. Suddenly Saori Fujiwara thinks of the name Genji Hikaru, the protagonist of from classic literature "The Tale of Genji." She blurts out "Genji Hikaru" and the man unexpectedly hugs her.

original_name: いいね！光源氏くん

Ultraman Cosmos

overview: Ultraman Cosmos is a calm and gentle alien of unknown origin who seeks to protect Earth. Unlike most Ultramen, Cosmos is a pacifist and prefers to resolve his disputes or disagreements by the way of peace.

original_name: ウルトラマンコスモス

Gridman the Hyper Agent

overview: Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei created their own videogame superhero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Kahn Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Kahn Digifer's digitized monsters in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the Human World.

original_name: 電光超人グリッドマン

Alice 6

overview: Six girls get lost in the forest and are taken through a series of mysterious worlds.

original_name: Alice 6

Ultraman Ginga S

overview: In this new series, two years after Ginga's battle with Dark Lugiel ended, Hikaru and Tomoya joined the UPG (Ultra Party Guardians) after countless monster sightings appeared. Also, an Alien Chibu named Exceller plans to steal the Victorium Stone which believed to contained mysterious powers that located deep underground the Victorian civilization. Due to this, Shou, a Victorian Prince was sent by his mother to retrieve it with the help of Victory Lancer which enable him to become the ancient Ultra, Ultraman Victory.

original_name: ウルトラマンギンガS

name: Taikomochi no tatsujin: Tadashii XX no homekata

original_name: 太鼓持ちの達人～正しいＸＸのほめ方～

Manpuku Shoujo Dragonet

overview: Maya, Mei, and Runa Shijo are detectives who work at the detective office of Tokuko Shijo, their aunt. At the same time, the girls helps with their parents' Chinese restaurant. However, no one knows, they all are descendants of the dragon tribe, and they transform into dragon warriors called Dragonet . Their goal is solving the incident caused by the evil tiger tribe.

original_name: 満福少女ドラゴネット

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger

overview: The Deboth Army who invaded the Earth in the time of the dinosaurs has revived. Wise God Torin selects 5 brave individuals who can defeat their respective Zyudenryu and give them powers to become the “People of the Strong Dragons”, Kyoryuger.

original_name: 獣電戦隊キョウリュウジャー

Ultraman Nexus

job: Series Director

job: Special Effects Coordinator

department: Crew

twitter_id: kazuyabear

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

title: Bumpkin Soup

overview: Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

character: Member of the Veracruz Music Circle

original_title: ドレミファ娘の血は騒ぐ

title: Ultraman: The Next

overview: First Lieutenant Shun'ichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet pilot (or "driver" as he is called in the film). A lifelong fan of flying since he was a child, being a pilot is his ultimate dream. Unfortunately, his duties distance himself from his wife, Yoko, who always ends up being neglected, and his son, Tsugumu, who has a congenital blood disease and has a high risk of dying at a young age.Maki decides to quit the Air Force to devote more time to his family and to spend whatever is left for his son. He takes a part-time job as a commercial tour guide run by a kindly group of people who allow him time to work and to also take care of his family.

character: Miku's Father

original_title: ULTRAMAN

title: 0093: Masao Kusakari On Her Majesty's Secret Service

overview: A James Bond Parody

original_title: 0093 女王陛下の草刈正雄

title: 真夏の夜はNO,TIME

overview: 8mm SFX movie

original_title: 真夏の夜はNO,TIME

title: Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light

overview: The members of the Super GUTS force, one of whom is secretly Ultraman Dyna, are in the middle of a losing battle against an enormous monster on the surface of the moon, when suddenly a spaceship appears and saves them by zapping the beast. The crew of the ship claim to members of the world peace force that originally created the Super GUTS force, and they invite the GUTS members to enter their brainwave patterns into the ship's battle computer so it can be a more effective fighting system. It sounds like a good idea, but could they have some other plan up their sleeves?

original_title: ウルトラマンティガ&ウルトラマンダイナ 光の星の戦士たち

title: Ultraman: The Next

title: My future of being executed

overview: A Japanese film released on November 23, 2012. This is the second installment of Toei Hero Next. It features the casts of Kamen Rider Fourze.  Yukio Asao (Fukushi Sota), a college student, was suddenly surrounded by lights and was detained in the interrogation room when he noticed. That is 25 years later from now, in the future. And there, he will be executed for his own sins of killing as many as five people. Yukio, who is convinced of his innocence, begins to escape under the guidance of "Riseman" (Ryo Yoshizawa). The time limit for the approaching public execution is only 72 hours. Can they prove his innocence and change the future?

title: Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless

overview: A fake documentary disguised as an undercover report on a secret circle that teaches how to freely secrete the brain drug endorphins.

original_title: 脳内潜在麻薬物質レポート ドラッグレス

title: The World You Don't Know II

overview: A horror anthology featuring : I'm Afraid to Give Birth by Kazunori Hagiwara, Forbidden Board by Yoshiki Sato and Ikiryotan by Kazuya Konaka.

original_title: あなたの知らない世界 II

title: Kuma-chan

overview: Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.

title: The Haunted High

overview: Another film by the Konaka brothers. There is a tunnel under the school, and Alice, Juri, and Reika get lost in a wonderland. The Men In Black played by Morishita Nittan (wearing rabbit ears) was a sight to behold. The story is about UFOs, but it's an offbeat comedy (what's a "school ghost story"?). The naming of the character, along with the genius gamer Mihime Goto from "Yokai Teke Teke", was carried over to "Alice 6", and was also repeated in the Glams game "Alice in Cyberland". - Alice 6 Chiaki J. Konaka's Web

title: Tokyo Girl

overview: Miho, a high school student, refuses to approve of her widowed mother’s potential husband when they meet each other at a restaurant. As she flounces out of the restaurant, she drops her cell phone. At the moment there is an earthquake and she drops her cell phone down a staircase. The phone is found by Tokijiro, a boy that lives in 1912.

title: Rayca

overview: Rayca is a girl of the 31st Century where individuals exist only as computer data. She comes to the 21st century to learn about our sub-culture.

title: The Defender

overview: Computer engineer Takashi notices that a microchip is protruding from his head. He contacts a notorious hacker for help. Meanwhile, Takashi's world is turning upside down. He's robbed at knifepoint & then chased through the crowded Tokyo streets by a giant. Or maybe not. Perhaps the microchip is only making him think these things are happening.  Soon he realizes there's a connection between all the bizarre traumas and a girl named Masami. Seemingly, all his troubles started when she visited his repair shop and asked him to fix her CD-ROM unit. Eventually Takashi finds himself psychically linked to the girl. As it turns out, they are secret government-made humanoids, programmed to live undetected within society an then - when the need should arise - they are activated as professional fighters; The action of the movie itself plays like the Defender arcade game.

title: Black Jack

overview: Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.

title: Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image

overview: Blackjack's surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease. However, there appears Dr. Kiriko, who demands extraordinary money like Black Jack, but undertakes euthanasia instead of treatment.

original_title: ブラック・ジャック３　ふたりの黒い医者

title: Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

overview: A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.

original_title: ブラック・ジャック２　ピノコ愛してる

title: Single8

overview: Summer 1978. High schooler Kurita is inspired by Star Wars, and films a spaceship scene on a 8mm camera together with his friend Ozawa. When the class is discussing a project for their school festival, Kurita's suggestion to make an SF movie ends up winning.  Together with their movie fan classmate Sasaki, the boys start to plan a movie and manage to convince Yamashita, the prettiest girl in class, to star as the heroine. Over the summer vacation, the four shoot their movie, "Time Reverse", where an alien spaceship arrives on Earth to turn back time in order to save mankind from itself.

title: Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground

overview: A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.

title: Nanase futatabi

overview: A gifted psychic named Nanase teams up with other psychics in order to fight against a mysterious organization determined to hunt them down.

title: The Dimension Travelers

overview: A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.

title: Atsuhime No.1

overview: It is 1853. Atsuko, adopted daughter of Shimazu Nariakira of the Satsuma clan and known to history as “Atsu-hime”, is en route by palanquin from her home to the castle of the Shogun in distant Edo. She is not happy with this, however, and resolves to struggle against her fate. In the mountains of Hakone she runs from her procession. Her governess Tae and the woman ninja Mitsu give chace. Continuing on in spite of their entreaties to come back, she looks up as the weird light of a meteor envelops them. The next thing she knows, she has gone 160 years into the future…

title: Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers

overview: In the beginning of the movie, 20 years ago, on the moon, the 4 Ultra brothers, Ultraman, Seven, Jack, and Ace were fighting a deadly foe known as Yapool, a monster that was several times their size. As they fought, Yapool had a clear advantage and used his several claws to grasp the brothers, although, they managed to clear from the claws through there powers and used a combined Specium Ray to no avail. The monster then flies off to Earth to dodge the attack and the brothers follow. The brothers were barely able to defeat Yapool but the monster still needed to be sealed. However, to seal Yapool away they were forced to give up the ability to transform, and took up jobs to be in the area of Kobe in case the monster ever returned.

original_title: ウルトラマンメビウス&ウルトラ兄弟

title: What I Long For

overview: High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.

title: Ultraman Zearth 2: Superhuman Big Battle - Light and Shadow

overview: Ultraman Shadow, Ultraman Zearth's most terrifying adversary yet, is brought to Earth by the murderous alien, Lady Benzen to be Ultraman Zearth's assassin. Ultraman Shadow is a warrior of darkness equipped with mysterious powers. Prepare to witness the ultimate showdown, colossus versus mighty colossus, the battle ground: Planet Earth!

original_title: ウルトラマンゼアス２ 超人大戦・光と影

title: Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: The Battle in Hyperspace

overview: A young boy discovers a magical rock that can make any wish come true. But the rock is stolen by a school bully who uses it to create a powerful and dangerous monster. The only way to stop the beast is to enlist the help of superhero Ultraman Gaia. The boy does everything he can to help the XIG Team, a brave group of humans who have direct contact with Ultraman Gaia as well as Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Tiga.

original_title: ウルトラマンティガ・ウルトラマンダイナ&ウルトラマンガイア 超時空の大決戦

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

overview: When Akio Mori is almost hit by a truck, his friend Makoto Ozaki does everything he can to save him. Since then, Akio has been having the strangest and most recurring dream of a beautiful girl appearing before him. He has been having this dream for two months, and the girl's identity has always been a mystery until now. Noticing the girl from his dreams passing by him in real life, Akio is shocked when she runs up to him, hugs him, and suddenly disappears. Completely perplexed by the experience, Akio returns home, but instead of finding comfort, he is forced to face an abrupt truth when, walking to his house, he sees a photograph of his funeral on display. Realizing for the first time that he did not survive the accident from which he believed Ozaki saved him, Akio decides that the only thing he can do is ask his best friend for help.

title: April Ghost Story

overview: A girl dies and a ghost who died 80 years ago tries to convince her to come back to life instead of remaining a ghost.

title: The New Seven Lines Between Things

overview: An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

title: ウルトラマンダイナ SPECIAL

original_title: ウルトラマンダイナ SPECIAL

title: You'll Die Six Hours Later

overview: "You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever since her acquaintance was murdered a few days ago, she realises that she has also become a victim of a stalker. Half believing it, she decides to hang around with Keishi. Later, with the help of Sawaki, a detective she knows, the stalker is identified. She thinks the case is closed but a totally unexpected person attacks her...

title: Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

overview: A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by Hayao Miyazaki and the red crow was done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

title: Single8

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

overview: After a traffic accident, Akio has the same recurring dream of girl standing under a starry sky. One day, he sees her at a train station platform, but afterwards he returns home and discovers he has been pulled into a parallel world, where he died in the traffic accident.

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: TURN POINT 10:40

overview: Inspired by Star Wars a year earlier, the director, along with fellow members of the “Fantastic Film Kids” in Seikei Senior High School Film Research Society, who were getting noticed for their various genre endeavors, created a short film that could be considered a science fiction blockbuster of the time.

title: Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers

original_title: ウルトラマンメビウス&ウルトラ兄弟

title: Single8

title: Sylvanian Families: The Movie

overview: In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival: picking the "Tree of the Year" and finding a birthday gift for her mom. With her adorable animal friends, she goes on a joyful adventure, learning about friendship and giving.

original_title: 劇場版 シルバニアファミリー フレアからのおくりもの

title: Mirrorman Reflex

overview: After dying in battle, Japanese soldier Akira Kageyama (Karato) is resurrected as a ‘mirror demon’ a supernatural agent capable of growing to enormous size. He uses his new abilities to defend the Manifest Realm from evil spirits.

title: April Ghost Story

title: Vamp

overview: A troubled teenager who is about to kill herself has a life changing encounter with a female vampire.

title: Labyrinth of Cinema

overview: When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

original_title: 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱

title: Anata ga koko ni itehoshii

original_title: あなたにここにいて欲しい

title: Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

title: The World You Don't Know I

overview: A horror anthology featuring: The Reaper's Pass by Kazuya Konaka, Spell Dream by Harunobu Ohara & The Wall by Akiyoshi Imazeki.

original_title: あなたの知らない世界 I

title: After a Dream

overview: Yuko dreams of a woman in a straw hat, an alternate herself who chose another path in her life

title: After a Dream

title: After a Dream

title: After a Dream

original_title: ウルトラマンゼアス２ 超人大戦・光と影

title: WHITE GIRL STORY

title: Olfactogram

overview: Amateur band guitarist Minoru Katagiri becomes unconscious when someone hits his head at her sister's house. When he regains consciousness a month later, he learns that her sister was killed as a victim of a series of bizarre murders that day. In addition, his sense of smell developed abnormally due to the after-effects of being beaten, and he acquired a special ability to visualize odors. Minoru pursues the criminal by making full use of this special ability.

title: A Graduation Proof

title: Bumpkin Soup

title: Ultraman: The Next

original_title: 0093 女王陛下の草刈正雄

title: 真夏の夜はNO,TIME

original_title: ウルトラマンティガ&ウルトラマンダイナ 光の星の戦士たち

title: Ultraman: The Next

title: My future of being executed

original_title: 脳内潜在麻薬物質レポート ドラッグレス

title: The World You Don't Know II

original_title: あなたの知らない世界 II

title: Kuma-chan

title: The Haunted High

title: Tokyo Girl

title: Rayca

title: The Defender

title: Black Jack

title: Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

original_title: ブラック・ジャック２　ピノコ愛してる

title: Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image

original_title: ブラック・ジャック３　ふたりの黒い医者

title: Single8

title: Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground

title: Nanase futatabi

title: The Dimension Travelers

title: Atsuhime No.1

title: Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers

original_title: ウルトラマンメビウス&ウルトラ兄弟

title: What I Long For

original_title: ウルトラマンゼアス２ 超人大戦・光と影

original_title: ウルトラマンティガ・ウルトラマンダイナ&ウルトラマンガイア 超時空の大決戦

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: April Ghost Story

title: The New Seven Lines Between Things

title: ウルトラマンダイナ SPECIAL

original_title: ウルトラマンダイナ SPECIAL

title: You'll Die Six Hours Later

title: Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

title: Single8

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

title: TURN POINT 10:40

title: Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers

original_title: ウルトラマンメビウス&ウルトラ兄弟

title: Sylvanian Families: The Movie

original_title: 劇場版 シルバニアファミリー フレアからのおくりもの

title: Single8

title: Mirrorman Reflex

title: April Ghost Story

title: Vamp

title: Labyrinth of Cinema

original_title: 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱

title: Anata ga koko ni itehoshii

original_title: あなたにここにいて欲しい

title: Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

title: The World You Don't Know I

original_title: あなたの知らない世界 I

title: After a Dream

title: After a Dream

title: After a Dream

title: After a Dream

original_title: ウルトラマンゼアス２ 超人大戦・光と影

title: WHITE GIRL STORY

title: Olfactogram

title: A Graduation Proof

original_name: 太鼓持ちの達人～正しいＸＸのほめ方～

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger

original_name: 獣電戦隊キョウリュウジャー