Katsuhisa Namase

Mother at Fourteen

overview: Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Initially upset, Miki's parents promise they will support her. Miki tells Satoshi of the pregnancy and he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other.

character: Ichinose Tadahiko

original_name: 14才の母

original_language: ja

印獣

overview: Yoshiko Mita plays the role of Reiko Nagatsuta, a self-proclaimed great actress who is forced to write her autobiography while imprisoning three people.

original_name: 印獣

Kotaro Lives Alone

overview: Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day, Shin Karino's doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door, he sees a small boy. The boy is 5-year-old Kotaro Sato. Kotaro Sato tells Shin Karino that he moved into the neighborhood. Shin Karino makes a weird face, because of the rule of his apartment complex. Kotaro Sato says that he lives by himself. At first, Shin Karino is annoyed by Kotaro Sato, but residents of the apartment building, including Shin Karino, become attached to Kotaro Sato.

character: Tamaru Isamu

original_name: コタローは1人暮らし

Manju Kowai

overview: After buying an old coffee shop in a residential area of Tokyo, the master (Katsuhisa Namase) and his wife Yoko (Eiko Koike) rename the store and prepare to reopen it. Then, a girl in school uniform, Tokiyo (Kaho), comes into the store. She says she has been held captive for eight years by a man named Yamazaki and has escaped.

original_name: 万獣こわい

Brother Beat

overview: Brother Beat is a Japanese television drama consisting of eleven episodes, which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 13 to December 22, 2005.

original_name: ブラザー☆ビート

Trick

overview: Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...

character: Kenzo Yabe

original_name: トリック

Man Drifting Ashore

overview: When 3 female high school students walk along the sea shore, they find a naked man laying down. They film him with their smartphones and the man says "Winner Take Nothing" before losing consciousness. The man is soon sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with having memory loss and he also drowned after swimming for an extended length of time. The man doesn't have any kind of identification. The only clue to his identity is a tattoo on his left ankle. The 3 high school students who found him uploads a video they filmed of him to social media. Due to the video, the man becomes famous.

original_name: 漂着者

Hanawa-sensei wa Hanninmae!?

overview: Spinoff WEB drama for "Kotaro Lives By Himself".

original_name: 花輪せんせいは半人前!?

Love and Glory

overview: Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.

character: Mosuke Horio

original_name: 功名が辻

Shards of Glass

original_name: 硝子のかけらたち

Young Father

character: Yamazaki

original_name: やんパパ

Don't be a cry baby

overview: After a car accident kills both her parents, the 16-year-old Ayumi (Fukada) and her brother are adopted by their aunt and uncle respectively. Their nightmares begin after they move in with the two families. Ayumi is forced to quit school and work in Water Inn, which is owned by her aunt's husband, who seems to be filled with hatred for Ayumi. In the inn, Ayumi is surrounded by people who seems to either hate her or dislike her. Her only friend is Lin (Chen) who is an illegal foreign worker. When she runs into troubles, she has 3 guardian angels who takes turn to help her: her aunt, Lin, and Sasaoka Yuzuri, the son of a politician and who has a promising future. Yuzuri's interest in her, however, incurs the jealousy of her cousin and the wrath of her uncle who loves his own daughter Yuriko (Nakamura) very much. In the meanwhile, she also has to find ways to bring her brother under her own

character: Kurokawa Yukihiko

original_name: 鬼の棲家

Amai Seikatsu

original_name: 甘い生活。

Unmarried Family

overview: Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family crisis, Yonekura leaves to pursue her dream. Sanada is stuck with their only son. Suzuki, his old flame -turn jet set career woman- is forced to take care of them. Will the romance spark again, now that Sanada already has family, and Suzuki has a younger man, Makoto, beside her?

original_name: 非婚家族

Manten

original_name: まんてん

Gal Circle

overview: Kitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya to find a group of girls to dance Para-Para. Along the way, he becomes a new type of hero, helping to solve problems that afflict Shibuya-Gals.

character: Tetsuo Yanagishita

original_name: ギャルサー

Love From a Lie

original_name: ウソコイ

Tokyo Cinderella Story

overview: Yukiko (Wakui Emi) has been living in Tokyo for three years. Inside her heart, she believes that this beautiful city will certainly bring her happiness. This belief starts to realise one day when she has a chance encounter with Masashi (Karasawa Toshiaki) while welcoming her brother, Kikuo (Kishitani Goro), at a railway station. As Masashi is the son of a very rich businessman, and Yukiko is only an ordinary girl from the countryside, their together is highly obstructed by lots of barriers. However, Yukiko's kind-hearted personality finally wins Masashi's love, and he takes out his courage to turn down marrying his rich fiancee. --Snowflakes

original_name: 妹よ

I Miss Age 35

overview: Akemi's marriage was the kind that no one could complain about. Akemi had perfect kids and a great husband. Everyone was happy. Until her husband, Eiji, starts having an affair, and a cruel fate calls upon her.

original_name: Age,35 恋しくて

Love Vacance

overview: Work, romance, and life take on a strange twist when a chance meeting at a bar between company salaryman Mayuzumi Kankuro (portrayed by comedian Akashiya Sanma) and his managing director's secretary (Suzuki Anju) leads to an engagement rumor. Soon fellow employees and family members are drawn into the mess. Kankuro's career with the company could be affected as things become complicated and misunderstandings occur in every step he makes in this romantic comedy, and things only get worse with his inability to set the rumor straight

original_name: 恋のバカンス

Top Caster

overview: Top Caster is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji TV in 2006.

character: Shokichi Ishiba

original_name: トップキャスター

Legal High

overview: A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.

character: Choichiro Miki

original_name: リーガル・ハイ

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

overview:
Can a coward commit suicide?

Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.

character: Sugimoto Masaru

original_name: あしたの、喜多善男

桜坂近辺物語

character: (Episode 2)

original_name: 桜坂近辺物語

獣道一直線！！！

original_name: 獣道一直線！！！

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.

character: Kiyohiko

original_name: 純ちゃんの応援歌

Hayabusa Fire Brigade

overview: Mima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he inherited from his father in the mountainous Hayabusa. When he joins the fire brigade, he becomes involved in a series of arson cases and suspicious incidents. As Taro searches for the truth, a huge conspiracy comes to the surface.

character: Kensaku Yamahara

original_name: ハヤブサ消防団

HR

overview: A situation comedy set in a fixed-time high school in Tokyo.

character: Hoi

original_name: HR

origin_country: JP US

Truth of Zero

overview: Maou Matsumoto is a new forensic medical examiner who returns in Japan after studying in USA. Mao only interest is her work and the autopsies she performs.

character: Ikuo Izumisawa

original_name: ゼロの真実～監察医・松本真央～

Ghost Mama Investigation

overview: Frst grade elementary school student Tonbo (Yuma Kimino) is the type that's easily scared. One day, when he wears his dead mother's glasses, the ghost of his deceased mother Choko Uehara (Yukie Nakama) appears in front of him. His mother died three months ago. Choko Uehara worked as a police officer. Now, other ghosts come to Choko Uehara. Even after her death she likes to meddle in other people's affairs. Choko Uehara now solves cases with her son Tonba as her partner. Choko also watches her son grow up until the real farewell day comes ...

character: Yoshimitsu Mifune

original_name: ゴーストママ捜査線～僕とママの不思議な100日～

Divorce Lawyer

overview:
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet.

Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer.

"Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.

character: Hiroyuki Takasawa

original_name: 離婚弁護士

Saving My Stupid Youth

overview: Heisuke teaches at his alma mater, an all-boy’s Buddhist high school and leads a very ordinary life, except for the fact that he is still tortured by the memory of an unfortunate incident that took place there involving him and his school 14 years ago. In hopes of closure, he strikes upon a plan to jointly hold this year’s Culture Festival with a nearby girl’s school, with which there are chilly relations. Determined at all costs to make the event a success, Heisuke finds himself dealing with a constant stream of problems along the way.

character: Daizaburo Sannomiya

original_name: ごめんね青春！

BOSS

overview: Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband.

character: Wataru Nishina

original_name: BOSS

Keibuho Yabe Kenzo

overview: The credit hogging police officer Yabe Kenzo in Trick now takes center stage. He saves the Japanese public from various evil doers not with his wit or his bravery, but with sheer stupid luck.

original_name: 警部補 矢部謙三

Nobunaga Concerto

overview: Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.

character: Yoshimoto Imagawa

original_name: 信長協奏曲

MOZU

overview:
An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro, the wife of Public Security chief inspector Kuraki Naotake.

While trying to find why his wife was being implicated in the explosion case, Kuraki comes into contact with Public Security sergeant Akeboshi Miki and Metropolitan Police Department inspector Osugi Ryota who are also investigating this case.

character: Gen Muroi

original_name: MOZU

Strawberry Night

overview: Reiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work and gain the respect of the policeman.

character: Hiromitsu Ioka

original_name: ストロベリーナイト

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: Goro Sawatari

original_name: ｢ごくせん｣

name: Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

overview: Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer Arisugawa Arisu, on the other hand, keeps a close eye on Himura's investigations and writes about them but at times completely misses the point. Not at all the type of guy you'd call dependable, Arisugawa nonetheless professes to be the protector of the clumsy Himura. Although these two men appear like they have no business being in crime scenes, they mitigate each other's shortcomings and use their compelling logic to unravel the elaborately woven tricks left behind by the criminals. It's almost as if Himura and Arisugawa use incredible magical powers to tease out unimaginable truths!

character: Hisashi Nabeshima

original_name: 臨床犯罪学者 火村英生の推理

Hana no Ran

overview: The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. The main character in the series is Tomiko Hino, a historical figure with a bad reputation because of her actions to rebuild Kyoto after the Ōnin War.

The Girl's Speech

overview: Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and keeps the peace in school. One day, she gets pushed to become the president of the student council by the people around her. Tsubame's encounter with a man who is a genius speechwriter, leads to a revolution in school. She struggles to change a school full of irrationality and dissatisfaction with the power of words.

4 Shimai Tantei Dan

overview: The story features a team of four sleuthing sisters.

Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot

overview: In the 1980s, a simple-minded fool named Hideaki meets comedy legend Sanma, changes his name to Jimmy and becomes a comedic superstar.

original_name: Jimmy～アホみたいなホンマの話～

Unlucky Girl!

overview: A comedy drama that depicts three women who are “the most unlucky in the world” struggling to get happiness while getting into trouble one after another.

Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle

overview: Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.

Ten Count to the Future

overview: When Kirisawa Shogo was a high school student, he was a brilliant amateur boxer. He won 4 boxing tournaments and he seemed to have a bright future in the sport. During his university student days, he quit the sport of boxing. Life went on for Kirisawa Shogo. But, after his beloved wife died, his life has now become a total mess. He doesn't have any hope or desire to live. He just spends his days working part-time jobs to make a living. One day, his friend asks him to coach the boxing team at the high school where they attended. Kirisawa Shogo accepts the coaching position. Being around the young boxers, who work extremely hard, Kirisawa Shogo begins to feel alive once again.

Atama ni Kitemo Aho towa Tatakauna!

overview: Kotaro Tanimura is 22 years old. He is smart enough to have graduated early with a MBA from the University of Cambridge in England. Afterwards, Kotaro Tanimura returns to Japan. He gets a job at a toy company. Kotaro Tanimura is ambitious and enthusiastic with his work. He must deal with fools and he tries to deal with them without fighting.

original_name: 頭に来てもアホとは戦うな！

Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out

overview: Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to investigate any wrongdoings in the bank branches. She is the voice of the suppressed staff who are unable to go against their bosses. Her partner is the veteran staff, Soma Ken, whose career with the bank had reached a dead end, no promotions in sight. Together, they resolve all the non-compliance issues at the bank.

Ms. Justice

overview: Ririko Takemura has worked as a prosecutor at the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor’s Office for the past 2 years. She is 29-years-old and single. Even thought she is not good at her work yet, she tries hard. Dealing with the various cases, Ririko Takemura grows as a prosecutor and a woman.

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

overview: Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.

Kamen Rider

overview: Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

The Golden Piggy

overview: Shinko (Ryoko Shinohara) is an accounting auditor who chases after tax evaders and embezzlers that hard working citizens needlessly pay for. Shinko has a knack for solving cases without common sense or standards.

original_name: 黄金の豚 －会計検査庁 特別調査課－

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

overview: Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

Second Love

overview:
Taira Kei has a talent for contemporary dance since he was young and went to study in Germany to join a dance company in his teens. He has won several international competitions and was referred to as a “prodigy”. However, he encountered a setback in the middle and got frustrated. He returned to Tokyo and takes a part-time work while he tries to re-capture his dream.

Nishihara Yui is a Chemisty teacher in her 30s, working at a prestigious high school. Even while continuing a love affair with a married colleague, she was still lonely until she meets Kei and gets swallowed in passion.

GM: General Medicine

overview: A brilliant general medicine doctor dreams only of becoming a famous dancer. He returns to Japan to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry only to find out the agency he signed up with was a sham. He stays in Japan and works part-time in a run-down GM center solving baffling medical mysteries. All the while he plans for his dancing comeback.

Inpei Sousa

overview: Elite police official Ryuzaki Shinya (Sugimoto Tetta) heads the General Affairs Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Secretariat. He is a man who sticks to what he believes in and has no regard for rank or the pride of those at the top and bottom. All he thinks about is “taking responsibility for everything”. In sharp contrast to Ryuzaki, Itami Shuntaro (Furuta Arata), the head of the Criminal Investigations Department, is amiable and perceptive. He is tactful about what he truly thinks, shows consideration for his surroundings and is flexible in his response to everything.

Quiz

overview: A woman's young son is kidnapped and the only clue to his disappearance is a note starting with the words "This is a quiz." What follows is a fast-paced and stylish whodunnit which leads chief investigator Kaoru Kiriko of the Special Investigation Team down a trail of increasingly perplexing riddles that all the while seem to mock the efforts of the police. Street-smart Kaoru may be the kidnapper's intellectual match, but as she gets closer to her mark, she finds herself becoming the hunted rather than the hunter.

Be with You

overview:
"Mommy will be back in the rainy season." Mio Aio wrote these words in a picture book just before passing away. Though six-year old Yuji accepts his mother's death, he still believes the promise his mother made. Then the rainy season comes, and Yuji and his father, Takumi, meet a woman in the downpour that bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is. Taking her in, they reacquaint her with her former self and family life returns to normal as memories come flooding back. But their new life together is interrupted by the discovery of Mio's old diary, which reveals the secrets of her past and how they must say goodbye in six weeks time.

~~ Adapted from the novel "Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu" (いま、会いにゆきます) by Takuji Ichikawa (市川 拓司).

Secret Unrequited Love

overview: When Takuma Kakinouchi was 8-years-old, he spent time in the hospital. He made friends with Mayu Taneda who was the same age as him. One day, they got out of the hospital and visited a park. There, Takuma Kakinouchi and Mayu Taneda promised that they would marry each other. They had no doubt that they would have a future together. 7 years later, Takuma Kakinouchi entered a prestigious high school at the age of 15. During the high school welcoming ceremony, a female freshman representative goes up to the platform. Takuma Kakinouchi is shocked to see that the girl is Mayu Taneda. Just so she could be with Takuma Kakinouchi, Mayu Taneda studied extremely hard to enter the same prestigious high school. Takuma Kakinouchi has tried to avoid her, even though he loves her. When he was younger, he heard how long he would live.

name: A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love

overview: Junko Harumi was once a model student during her middle school and high school days. She failed to enter prestigious Tokyo University and her life has not gone smoothly since then. She has a hard time finding a job and having relationships with men. Now, at the age of 31, she works as a teacher at a private institute. 3 men, who vary in type, appear in front of her. Masashi Yakumo is smart and a cousin of Junko, Kyohei Yuri is a disorderly high school student and Kazuma Yamashita is Kyohei ’s teacher in high school.

original_name: 初めて恋をした日に読む話

Beppin-san

overview: The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan. -- NHK

Angel Bank

overview: Ino Mamako is an English teacher at one of Japan's roughest schools, Ryuzan High School. After nine years of teaching, Ino decides to "reset" her life and meets with Ebisawa Yasuo, a charismatic "occupational change agent" who advises people on switching jobs. However, Ebisawa ends up hiring Ino as an occupational change agent herself. Together with her work partner Taguchi Ryota, Ino helps others switch gears in their livelihoods and transform the rest of their lives.

original_name: エンゼルバンク～転職代理人

女マネージャー金子かおる　哀しみの事件簿

original_name: 女マネージャー金子かおる　哀しみの事件簿

Tokyo Scarlet

original_name: 東京スカーレット～警視庁NS係

Detective Akechi Kogoro

overview: Dangerous hacker group “Phantom 20” is known internationally. They begin an attack on Hikari Bank in Japan. Kenjiro Namikoshi (Teruyuki Kagawa) is the chief of the criminal investigation section at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He leads the investigation into the group. Kenjiro Namikoshi thinks of Kogoro Akechi (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who holds vast knowledge on hacking and leads BD team hacker group. To ask him for advisor help on the investigation, Kenjiro Namikoshi sends Yoshio Kobayashi (Atsushi Ito).

Otoko Meshi

overview: University student Wakamizu Ryota (Emoto Tokio), who is the middle of job hunting, gets caught up in a sudden gang dispute. Ryota’s life is saved by Yanagiba Ryuichi (Namase Katsuhisa), the boss of Yanagiba-gumi, and Ryota for some reason ends up harbouring Yanagiba in his own home. Ignoring Ryota who wants him to leave immediately, Yanagiba uses the leftover food in the fridge and starts to prepare a meal without asking. However, the meal is surprisingly delicious despite the leftovers that did not seem possible to combine. This is the beginning of a bizarre communal life connected by meals for a gangster and a university student.

Ochoyan

overview: In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as a servant when she was 9 years old. There, she was attracted by the world of theatre comedy. She grows up to be an actor and marries to Amami Ippei , but the war broke out and she was forced to stay away from acting for a while. However, when she comes back again, her acting in a radio drama impresses many people and makes herself one of the leading actors in western Japan.

Your Turn to Kill

overview: Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy mystery. The newlywed couple then move to an apartment and they attend a resident’s meeting there. Nana and Shota become involved in murder cases that take place at the apartment. Residents get murdered one by one. Some residents have a motive, but those suspects have an alibi. Because of this, an arrest has yet to be made.

Cat Street

overview: A story about a talented child actress who wins back her dream after retiring from acting. Keito was once a popular child actress, but she had shut herself away from society for 10 years after a traumatic acting incident. She is now 17 years old and incidentally enrolls to a free school for dropouts where she makes true friends. Together, they build trust and find the meaning of life. --NHK

Map for The Wedding

overview: Upon learning their employer is transferring an unmarried person to Alaska, coworkers Rika and Takuya decide to tie the knot in order to dodge a bullet.

original_name: 結婚するって、本当ですか

Dying Eye

overview: One night, Amemura Shinsuke, a bartender at a Nishi Azabu bar in Tokyo, is attacked by a male stranger and loses a part of his memories. However, he soon learns that he caused the death of a woman called Kishinaka Minae in a traffic accident one and a half years ago. And the man who came to attack him and later committed suicide, was her husband Reiji. For some reason, Shinsuke is frequently advised by the people around him that it is better not to recall bad things. He begins to have misgivings about the truth of the accident. Then when Shinsuke returns to the bar on one rainy night, Ruriko, a woman in mourning clothes and of unwordly beauty, shows up all of a sudden. From the time of her appearance, Shinsuke descends into a world of madness and anguish. Does she truly exist or is she a figment of imagination conjured by a guilty conscience?

You Don't Know That, Teacher?

overview: When an eager young man gets an elementary school teaching position as his first job, he finds a school staff and student body stricken with apathy. He vows to find a way to invigorate his students and co-workers, but his tendency to burn a straight path toward his goals, while failing to consider any obstacles in his way, may be his biggest fault. Or it may turn out to be his greatest asset.

Reversal Orchestra

overview: 10 years ago, Tanioka Hatsune was a famous young violinist. She won many international music competitions and performed with prestigious orchestras. For some reason, Tanioka Hatsune decided to walk away from her career and never perform on stage again. Now, she is 28-years-old and works as a public officer in Nishi Ward, Saitama City. She still enjoys to play the violin in private, but Tokiwa Asahi becomes aware of her. Tokiwa Asahi is a rising maestro, who is based in Germany. His love for music is so much, that he is very strict on his players. One day, his father, who is the head of Nishi Ward in Saitama City, tells him to return to Japan and rebuild the local Kodama Symphony Orchestra. He returns to Japan and begins to rebuild the local symphony in Saitama City. He tries to recruit Tanioka Hatsune to play the violin on stage once again

Things You Can Know by Looking at Them

overview: Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives in the same apartment building. One day, a newlywed couple, including wife Rumi Kamoi, move into the same apartment building. The newlywed husband is Momoko Uchida's ex-husband. They divorced 20 years ago.

JK to Roppozensho

overview:
Sakuragi Miyabi is a high school student in Aomori. She lives with her lawyer grandfather and receives special education from him in the field of law. Sakuragi Miyabi soon becomes the youngest person to pass the bar exam on their first try. A decision is then made to send Sakuragi Miyabi to her grandmother in Tokyo, who works as a director of a law office.

Sakuragi Miyabi begins to work as an apprentice lawyer at her grandmother’s law office. Despite her position, she still has the mindset of a teenager and sometimes has disagreements with senior lawyers. Meanwhile, Sakuragi Miyabi begins classes at her new high school in Tokyo. She hides her lawyer job from people at her high school, but she eventually begins to give counseling at her school on law matters.

character: 人助けおじさん / ホクロの男

Shinjuku Field Hospital

overview: A gripping medical drama centered around a hospital in Kabukicho. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, including those from male host bars and street kids many with complicated backgrounds.

イケ麺新そば屋探偵～いいんだぜ！～

original_name: イケ麺新そば屋探偵～いいんだぜ！～

Kamen Rider Zi-O

overview: Sougo Tokiwa who always dreamed of becoming a king encounters a mysterious girl who came from the future and warns him that he would become the king of all time, Kamen Rider Zi-O, who destined to rule the world.

overview: The Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours. Detective Kazumi Shima is selected as a new member of MIU. He is intelligent, with excellent observation and communication skills. Yet, he does not trust other people. He is unable to find a partner in MIU and is ordered to partner with Police Officer Ai Ibuki, who works at a police substation. Ibuki applied for MIU, but he failed. He is in excellent physical condition, but he lacks knowledge and experience as a detective. Shima learns about Ibuki's background and he becomes more nervous. Finally, Shima has his first meeting with Ibuki.

それって!?実際どうなの課

original_name: それって!?実際どうなの課

Hadaka no Taishō

overview: A new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter Kiyoshi Yamashita, starring Tsukaji Muga.

San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku

overview: A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each time. As the narration at the beginning of the show says: "If you think you can create the same work with the same script, you don't know drama". This is a drama that clearly shows how the atmosphere of a work changes depending on the direction, making it ideal for those who aspire to become directors.

Colors of Sisterhood

overview: A serious eldest sister, a reckless second sister, an easygoing third sister, and a stubborn fourth sister. After overcoming various love issues, what happy ending awaits each of the four?

original_name: 若草物語―恋する姉妹と恋せぬ私―

Galileo

overview: Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.

The 19th Medical Chart

overview: In Japan's newest medical specialty, general practitioner Tokushige Akira listens closely to his patients' stories, uncovering hidden truths and guiding them toward healing through empathy and conversation.

Why I Dress Up for Love

overview: A busy publicist learns to open her mind and heart when she moves into a luxury apartment with a friend and her three free-spirited roommates.

original_name: 着飾る恋には理由があって

Cover-up Investigation

overview: Elite police official Ryuzaki Shinya heads the General Affairs Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Secretariat. He is a man who sticks to what he believes in and has no regard for rank or the pride of those at the top and bottom. All he thinks about is “taking responsibility for everything”. In sharp contrast to Ryuzaki, Itami Shuntaro, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department, is amiable and perceptive. He is tactful about what he truly thinks, shows consideration for his surroundings and is flexible in his response to everything.

The Noble Detective

overview: A mysterious man known only as the “Aristocrat Detective” indulges in solving cases as a hobby while leaving the real work to his staff, but when sharp private detective Aika Takatoku enters the scene, a battle of wits begins.

Time Loop Detective

overview: A plainclothes detective travels back 10 years in time to prevent his girlfriend’s murder, using his future knowledge to confront police corruption and rewrite his destiny.

A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You

overview: During the Showa-era, newlyweds Natsumi Ebata and Takimasa Ebata enter an arranged marriage without a single day of courtship. Through tender yet exasperating moments, the two slowly bridge the gap between them, discovering love in the quiet routines of their shared days.

original_name: 波うららかに、めおと日和

Maison Prison

overview: Ginbayashi Yoko is a top-class chef at a high-end Italian restaurant, but her life is turned upside down when the owner runs away with all the earnings, forcing the restaurant to close. With two children to support, she takes a job at a local men’s prison as a nutritionist, where her main duties involve planning monthly menus. Encouraged by the warden, she resolves to pursue rehabilitation through food, questioning whether people can truly change and what she herself can achieve. Thus begins her new challenge—aiming for “three-star prison cuisine.”

ブラックトリック～裁きを操る弁護人～

overview: In a society shaped by the internet and media, a lawyer fights to clear the names of those wrongly accused by exposing the truth behind carefully crafted lies.

original_name: ブラックトリック～裁きを操る弁護人～

普通话

生濑胜久

biography: 生濑胜久（日语：生瀬 勝久／なませ かつひさ Namase Katsuhisa，1960年10月13日—），日本男演员、艺人、主持人。本名相同。旧艺名枪魔栗三助（やりまくり さんすけ）。出身于兵库县西宫市。西宫市立生濑小学、西宫市立盐濑中学、兵库县立宝冢高等学校、同志社大学文学院社会学系（现社会学院社会学系）毕业。RICOMOTION所属。身高178cm。体重70kg。O型血。

日本語

生瀬勝久

biography: 大学在学中の83年、辰巳琢郎が座長を務める「劇団そとばこまち」に入団。槍魔栗 三助（やりまくり さんすけ）の名で活動を開始、同年の『猿飛佐助』で初舞台を踏む。88年に4代目の座長に就任し、作・演出も手がける。01年に劇団を退団してからはTVドラマや映画でも活躍する。ドラマの代表作に「TRICK」シリーズ（00～10）、「ごくせん」シリーズ（02～09）、NHK大河ドラマ「功名が辻」（06）など。「TRICK」シリーズのスピンオフのドラマ「警部補　矢部謙三」（10）では主演を務めた。映画初出演作は「トキワ荘の青春」（96）で、その他の作品に「南極料理人」「サイドウェイズ」（ともに09）など多数。実写版「ヤッターマン」（09）ではボヤッキーに扮した。人気コント番組「サラリーマンNEO」（04～）に出演し、同番組を映画化した「サラリーマンNEO 劇場版（笑）」（11）でも主要キャストに名を連ねる。

普通话

生瀨勝久

biography:
日本男演員。

他的妻子堀本陽子是一名模特。母親是生瀨悦子，曾任兵庫縣西宮市議會副議長。生瀨勝久畢業於同志社大學文學部社會學科產業關係學專業。他因主演電視劇《圈套》和《極道鮮師》而被觀眾所熟知

also_known_as:
生濑胜久
나마세 카츠히사
Намасэ Кацухиса
生瀬 勝久
槍魔栗三助

title: Strawberry Night

overview: Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case.

title: Kamikaze Girls

overview: Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

title: The Water Flows to the Sea

overview: High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.

title: Shara

overview: The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

title: 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

overview: In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?

original_title: 20世紀少年 －第1章－ 終わりの始まり

title: Sakurada Gate Incident

overview: Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.

title: Your Turn to Kill: The Movie

overview: Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"

title: The Blood of the Extreme!

overview: This work is a sequel to the former 'Gokudo' series.

title: Chat Noir Lucy

overview: Middle-aged man Ken Kamoshida is a fortune teller and his life revolves around superstitions. Since he and his wife separated, Ken Kamoshida's life has been messy. One day, he comes across 2 black kittens which represents a symbol for misfortune. He has difficulty in raising the kittens, but he uses the kittens to help read the fortunes of others. In the process, he discovers what's really important to him.

title: Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale

overview: Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick ..

original_title: 劇場版TRICK 霊能力者バトルロイヤル

title: Trick: The Movie

overview: Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?

title: Hayabusa

overview: May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.

title: Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

overview: 3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...

original_title: カイジ2 人生奪回ゲーム

title: The Man Who Can't Defraud

overview: Sakai plays an extremely good-natured businessman. When he attends a marriage activity party in an attempt to start a happy family, he meets a swindler played by Mugi Kadowaki, and ends up being a part of the scam.

title: Sideways

overview: A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country.

title: Suite Dreams

overview: New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.

title: Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

overview: There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

title: Ranma ½

overview: Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.

title: Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special

overview: Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery, she is deprived of “the most important weapon as a surgeon.”

original_title: ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～ スペシャル

title: Platinum Data

overview: Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at the DNA analysis institution run by the National Police Agency.  When the inventor of the DNA analysis system is murdered, Ryuhei Kagura's own DNA is found at the murder scene. Ryuhei Kagura becomes the prime suspect and then he becomes a fugitive. Veteran detective Reiji Asama goes in pursuit.

title: Bad Lands

overview: A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

title: The Innocent Game

overview: Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law school. One day, a leaflet is distributed by an anonymous person at their law school. The leaflet makes accusations about the past of Kiyoyoshi Kuga and Mirei Orimoto. Soon, unpleasant cases takes place around them. Kiyoyoshi Kuga talks to Kaoru Yuki, who is an extremely smart classmate and in charge of the mock trials. These three people chase after the truth, but they face an unexpected situation.

title: Trick Haha no Izumi Hen Cho Kanzen Ban

original_title: トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版

title: The Smiling Man

overview: Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university and founding a job at a major city bank, marries Shoko and have a daughter, Amina. Nito, while leading a life that looks like the picture of happiness and being the envy of everyone, is charged with the murder of his wife and young child. At his trial, he reveals a shocking motive for the crime: “I wanted space for books.”

title: Yasagure Panda〈Black Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈White Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈Gold Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈Silver Edition〉

title: やさぐれぱんだ〈笹盤〉

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: やさぐれぱんだ〈竹盤〉

title: Strawberry Night

overview: Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case ...

title: The Last Princess

overview: After the Akizuku clan fall in defeat to rival clan Yamana, Princess Yuki and General Rokurota take cover in a hidden fortress, along with their clan and gold treasury. Fortuitously stumbling into the hideaways, brash young miner Takezo and his bumbling sidekick Shinhachi hatch a daring plan to help transport the gold out of enemy terrain – in exchange for a share of the stash, of course. With assassins hot in pursuit, Yuki disguises as a male and ventures into the real world with Rukurota and her peasant companions, getting her first taste of danger, toil, and budding romance with the strong-minded and willful Takezo.

title: Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos

overview: Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a letter arrives threatening the destruction of Tojo University Hospital and Kerberos Tower in 3 months. Before the pair are able to uncover the truth, an unprecedented rash of suspicious deaths occur which can’t be explained through autopsy. On the day of the AI (Autopsy Imaging) Center’s opening and introduction of a revolutionary new MRI machine called “Leviathan”, further incidents rock the medical community.

original_title: チーム・バチスタFINAL ケルベロスの肖像

title: April Fools

overview: Ayumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety. After having a one-night stand with genius surgeon and sex addict Wataru Makino, Ayumi discovers she’s pregnant. However, when she tells Wataru, he dismisses her claim as a bad April Fools joke. Refusing to believe he could possibly be the father of Ayumi’s baby after just one night together, Wataru takes a woman named Reiko on a date to an Italian restaurant. However, Ayumi also shows up, leading to a major incident.

title: The Snow White Murder Case

overview: A beautiful cosmetics company employee is found dead in a gruesome state. What's more, it becomes apparent that one of the victim's colleagues, a homely woman named Miki, has gone missing. Television director Akaboshi attempts to interview as many of Miki's friends and acquaintances as he can find, eliciting miscellaneous information from them.

title: Desert Moon

overview: A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be transformed by a stranger, the enigmatic Keechie.

title: The Chef of South Polar

overview: When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

title: Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer

overview: Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the section that handles cases deemed "unsolvable" by the department. Her partner, though a well-respected and experienced detective, has grown complacent after unsuccesfully pursuing these cases that many consider an exercise in futility. With her upper class breeding, her colleagues don't expect much from her either, but she suprises them all with her motivation and astounding powers of deduction. Well-constructed mysteries and colorful characters abound in this stylish and edgy police drama.

title: Trick the Movie: Last Stage

overview: Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.

original_title: トリック劇場版 ラストステージ

title: 蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

original_title: 蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

title: I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow

overview: 41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit...

original_title: 俺はまだ本気出してないだけ

title: The After-Dinner Mysteries

overview: Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!

original_title: 映画 謎解きはディナーのあとで

title: Keizoku Special: Phantom

overview: After the events of the series, Shibata has lost her memories and is reassigned. Meanwhile, a strange case regarding a cursed tree that kills whoever's name is written on its trunk surfaces among mysterious deaths. Following different leads, Shibata and the Unsolved Cases unit will meet again as they investigate. Asakura, it seems, is also plotting behind the scenes...

original_title: ケイゾク／特別篇〜死を契約する呪いの樹

title: A Lone Scalpel

overview: Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…

title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022

overview: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series. This was the SP released in 2022.

title: 必殺仕事人2020

title: 必殺仕事人2019

title: 必殺仕事人2018

title: 必殺仕事人2016

title: 必殺仕事人2015

title: 必殺仕事人2014

title: 必殺仕事人2013

title: The Armchair Detective and the Night of the UFOs

original_title: 安楽椅子探偵とUFOの夜

title: Oiesan

overview: Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company.

title: Deadly Professional 2023

overview: An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever, your face will turn red like a demon, and then you will die. There is no cure in sight, and people’s anxiety is increasing.

title: Variations

overview: Referred to as the Pearl of the Orient, supermodel Miori Reiko has had her fair share of scandals due to her eccentricity and her wild love affairs. One day, Reiko is found dead in her apartment by her housekeeper, Ota Michiko. The medical examiner found traces of potassium cyanide in her body, which kick-started a major police investigation into her death.  Who is the true murderer of Miori Reiko?

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: A Ghost of a Chance

overview: Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost herself. And so the fun begins in the courtroom when Prosecutor Osano starts to cross examine.

title: Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

overview: Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

original_title: 真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん

title: Trick: The Movie 2

overview: Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.

title: Happy Together –All About My Dog–

overview: A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.

original_title: 犬とあなたの物語 いぬのえいが

title: Legal High SP

overview: Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof when Kazuhiko Kogure fell off. According to the other students there, Kazuhiko Kogure tried to jump to another school building, but missed. Fortunately, Kazuhiko Kogure only fractured his leg and ribs. According to Kazuhiko Kogure's mother Hidemi, the school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. Hidemi though, doesn't believe it, because Kazuhiko Kogure has a fear of heights. Hidemi goes to see attorney Machiko Mayuzumi and Machiko decides to take her case, but she asks for fellow attorney Kensuke Komikado's help. Meanwhile, the school hires attorney Teshigahara Isao.

original_title: リーガル・ハイ スペシャル

title: Samurai Commando Mission 1549

overview: An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.

title: The Inugami Clan

overview: In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan’s terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities to find the murderer.

title: Airport 2013

overview: When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of their own. Shot in a single take, "Airport" focuses on familial and romantic relationships and the secrets that often hold them together.

title: Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love

overview: Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Morihara is too shy to show his love since he is much older than Fumika. On learning that Fumika goes to England to study about English Tea, Morihara rushes to the airport but his effort is in vain. He takes out his dead wife's photo and consults her: "I love Fumika, what should I do?"

title: Rose & Samurai 2: Return of the Pirate Queen

overview: Follows the adventures of Anne de Alwida, a pirate queen, and Goemon Ashikawa, a master thief. Set in the 17th century on the Iberian peninsula, the film showcases Anne and Goemon as they navigate various challenges and comedic mishaps while protecting the seas.

title: Yamagata Scream

overview: High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.

title: Soup

overview: Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.

original_title: スープ〜生まれ変わりの物語〜

title: Shippu Rondo

overview: An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen.

title: Mixed Doubles

overview: To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.

title: Trick Shinsaku Special

overview: Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one. Introduction of Yabe's Otaku assistant, Akiba.

original_title: トリック　新作スペシャル

title: Legal High 2 SP

overview: Attorneys Kensuke Komikado  and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.

original_title: リーガル・ハイ スペシャル２

title: My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

overview: All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' convention that is currently being held on the island. During that time, suddenly, despite an iron wall of security surrounding the island, the system is breached by a villain, and the only ones able to stop him are the students of Class 1-A.

original_title: 僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE ～2人の英雄～

title: Masquerade Hotel

overview: A serial (3) killer leaves a GPS code of his next target with each victim - this time Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. A detective goes undercover as hotel staff - haircut, manners etc.

title: Trick Shinsaku Special 2

overview: Ueda, Naoko, Yabe Kenzo and his partner Akiba are back in a new Trick special. Ueda Jiro is summoned to investigate serial killings that are likely to happen again during a festival to take place in a small village in Okayama. The victims are persons who took an oath under a local tradition but were dumped by their partners afterwards. The festival is marked by the return to the village of a strange woman by the name of Higashizaki Ayano, who had left 20 years ago after the death of her husband and son. The Saionji family, which is the most influential in the city, dislikes the fact

original_title: トリック新作スペシャル2

title: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever

overview: A young Kamen Rider fan is granted his wish of seeing Riders in person, initiating the ultimate Japanese superhero crossover meta film. The third and final installment of the Heisei Generations series finds Kamen Rider Zi-O and Kamen Rider Build joining forces with all of the other Heisei Generation Riders to reverse the damages of an evil Time Jacker named Tid, and save their legacy. Are Kamen Riders real? Will you believe?

original_title: 仮面ライダー平成ジェネレーションズFOREVER

title: Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen

overview: This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yoshida Shōin (吉田 松陰, 1830-1859) was one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. He devoted to developing many Ishin Shishi who made an outstanding contribution to the Meiji Restoration. At least two of his students, Takasugi Shinsaku and Itō Hirobumi later became famous, and virtually all of the survivors of the Sonjuku group became officers in the Meiji Restoration. Takasugi led rifle companies against the shogun's army when it failed to conquer Chōshū in 1864, rapidly leading to the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Ito Hirobumi became Japan's first prime minister. His admirer, Maebara Issei, was later killed rebelling against the Meiji regime. He is now enshrined in Setagayaku-（世田谷区）Tokyo, Japan.

original_title: 蒼天の夢 松陰と晋作・新世紀への挑戦

title: Trick Shinsaku Special 3

overview: Within a mountain village, the  Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three sisters from the Sujin family begin to quarrel over the family inheritance. There, consecutive murders then take place in the village. The murders can only by explained by paranormal phenomenon. Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) attempt to uncover the truth.

original_title: TRICK 新作スペシャル3

title: A Flawless Concierge

overview: A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.

original_title: ステキな隠し撮り〜 完全無欠のコンシェルジュ〜

title: Designated Lawyer

overview: Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but people become furious that he was not going to be prosecuted. A committee of prosecutors meets and concludes that Seizo Tagane should be prosecuted. An outstanding lawyer Yui Hitotsugi takes the prosecutor's position in the case with the help of the prosecutor Tachibana.

title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012

overview: This show is based on the jidaigeki TV series “Hissatsu Shigotonin,” which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. Shigotonin is a group of hired assassins to bring justice to those who were able to escape the long arm of the law. Noriyuki Higashiyama and Masahiro Matsuoka return from the 2009 special. Emi Wakui and Koki Tanaka are new in this TV movie.

title: Yatterman

overview: Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2.  With the help of a dog-shaped robot, Yatterwoof, they take on the Doronbow gang, lead by the sexy Lady Doronjo.  Together, they must stop the evil gang from finding the four magical skull pieces that will allow them to control the world!

title: Kohaku no yume

overview: a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii

title: Haru-san – The Bride's Father is a Great Detective

overview: Dollmaker Haruhiko Kasukabe, nicknamed Haru-san, lost his wife Ruriko in an airplane crash 22 years ago and has been living with his only daughter Furi since then. It is the day of Furi's wedding. However, Furi only told Haruhiko about the wedding a month before. Since the bridegroom had some trouble at his overseas job, he was only able to return to Japan the day of the wedding, so Haruhiko has not met him even once. What kind of man did Furi choose to marry, and why did she hide such an important thing for so long...!? Haruhiko, worrying over all this, shuts himself in his room and decides not to go to the wedding... then, something completely unexpected happens to him. His late wife Ruriko appears before him. The truth is, she has appeared at Haruhiko's side many times before. What could be Ruriko's goal...

original_title: ハルさん～花嫁の父は名探偵!?

title: Kamen Rider Zi-O the Movie: Over Quartzer

overview: The Quartzers, calling themselves the Wardens of Time, appear after Sougo Tokiwa has collected all of the Heisei Era Ride Watches. A grand conspiracy behind the birth of the King of Time becomes ever clearer...

original_title: 劇場版 仮面ライダージオウ Over Quartzer

title: Discord

overview: Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor.

original_title: 不協和音 炎の刑事 VS 氷の検事

title: Kaiji: Final Game

overview: Kaiji is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything he, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. He is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations.

original_title: カイジ ファイナルゲーム

title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

overview: With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

original_title: ガメラ3 邪神＜イリス＞覚醒

title: Akuma no Temariuta

title: Godai - The Wunderkind

overview: A biographical story of Tomoatsu Godai, the influential entrepreneur of the Meiji era who laid the foundation of the modern Japanese economy.

title: Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain

original_title: ストロベリーナイト アフター・ザ・インビジブル・レイン

title: Last Scene

overview: Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.

title: Kikoku

overview: An unscheduled late night train arrives at Tokyo station on 15 August, the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Boarding the train are spirits of great men who died honourable deaths in the war more than 60 years ago. They have come to the modern world to see their homeland as a peaceful country and to tell the lingering spirits of the war dead about the current conditions.

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: The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –

overview: Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki

original_title: コンフィデンスマンJP プリンセス編

title: Fortress of Skulls

overview: Japan, 1590. Following the death of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seizure of power, the mysterious warlord Tenmaō and his fierce warriors terrorize the inhabitants of the Kantō Plain.

original_title: 髑髏城の七人 Season風

title: 天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～

original_title: 天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～

title: My Father's Dragon

overview: Elmer is told by a traveling cat about a baby dragon who is being held captive and mistreated on the scary Wild Island. Elmer decides to investigate and battles tigers, crocodiles and gorillas in order to rescue the little dragon.

title: New Abarenbō Shōgun

overview: The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the common people as Tokuda Shinnosuke, the third son of a poor samurai retainer, commonly known as "Shin-san". The story depicts Yoshimune, who is shaken by the issue of succession, the drama within Edo Castle, and a difficult case involving a conspiracy that occurs in the castle town, with the addition of new characters and a sense of the era.

title: Visas for Life

overview: World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began persecuting the Jews. Lithuania was then annexed by the Soviet Union, and the Japanese consulate was ordered to close. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees who had fled Poland flocked to the Japanese consulate, requesting the issuance of Japanese transit visas. Chiune repeatedly sent telegrams to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting permission to issue visas to the Jewish refugees, but received a final notice that the visas could not be issued. However, with only a month left until the departure deadline, Chiune decided to defy the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' orders and issued visas to the Jewish refugees...

original_title: 日本のシンドラー　杉原千畝物語　六千人の命のビザ

title: The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant

overview: Night after night, eccentric regulars gather at a quaint eating house located in the corner of a crossing in Tsukifune-cho

title: Black Showman

overview: Fukuyama plays the extremely unique protagonist Kamio Takeshi, who has outstanding magic that has made him famous in Las Vegas and a skillful ability to observe people, but is also strict with money and lies as easily as he breathes.  Furthermore, Kamio Mayo, the niece of Kamio Takeshi played by Fukuyama, who teams up with Takeshi after her father is killed by someone and works hard to solve the murder case, will be played by top actress Arimura Kasumi, who has brilliantly played a variety of roles from love stories to comedies and period dramas, and whose solid acting skills have captivated people!

title: Faking Beethoven

overview: Beethoven, the world's most famous musician and iconic solitary genius. But what if that image was entirely fabricated… by his own secretary?

title: ベトナムのひかり～ボクが無償医療を始めた理由～

overview: Based on the true story about ophthalmologist Hattori Tadashi, who quit his high-paying job in Japan two decades ago to give impoverished people in Vietnam access to eye care.  A movie to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Japan and Vietnam.

original_title: ベトナムのひかり～ボクが無償医療を始めた理由～

title: Maiko Haaaan!!!

overview: Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

title: Ninkyo Gakuen

overview: A group of ardent, do-gooding yakuza agree to help a struggling high school. But they're no match for the bored students and the apathetic faculty!

title: 女王の教室 エピソード1〜堕天使〜

original_title: 女王の教室 エピソード1〜堕天使〜

title: Gozamareji

title: Strawberry Night

title: Kamikaze Girls

title: The Water Flows to the Sea

title: Shara

title: 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

original_title: 20世紀少年 －第1章－ 終わりの始まり

title: Sakurada Gate Incident

title: Your Turn to Kill: The Movie

title: The Blood of the Extreme!

title: Chat Noir Lucy

title: Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale

original_title: 劇場版TRICK 霊能力者バトルロイヤル

title: Trick: The Movie

title: Hayabusa

title: Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

original_title: カイジ2 人生奪回ゲーム

title: The Man Who Can't Defraud

title: Sideways

title: Suite Dreams

title: Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

title: Ranma ½

title: Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special

original_title: ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～ スペシャル

title: Platinum Data

title: Bad Lands

title: The Innocent Game

title: Trick Haha no Izumi Hen Cho Kanzen Ban

original_title: トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版

title: The Smiling Man

title: Yasagure Panda〈Gold Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈Black Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈Silver Edition〉

title: Yasagure Panda〈White Edition〉

title: やさぐれぱんだ〈笹盤〉

title: Gokusen: The Movie

title: やさぐれぱんだ〈竹盤〉

title: Strawberry Night

title: The Last Princess

original_title: チーム・バチスタFINAL ケルベロスの肖像

title: April Fools

title: The Snow White Murder Case

title: Desert Moon

title: The Chef of South Polar

title: Trick the Movie: Last Stage

original_title: トリック劇場版 ラストステージ

title: 蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

original_title: 蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」

title: I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow

original_title: 俺はまだ本気出してないだけ

title: The After-Dinner Mysteries

original_title: 映画 謎解きはディナーのあとで

title: Keizoku Special: Phantom

original_title: ケイゾク／特別篇〜死を契約する呪いの樹

title: A Lone Scalpel

title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022

title: 必殺仕事人2020

title: 必殺仕事人2019

title: 必殺仕事人2018

title: 必殺仕事人2016

title: 必殺仕事人2014

title: 必殺仕事人2015

title: 必殺仕事人2013

original_title: 安楽椅子探偵とUFOの夜

title: Oiesan

title: Deadly Professional 2023

title: Variations

title: Japanese Salaryman NEO

original_title: サラリーマンＮＥＯ　劇場版（笑

title: A Ghost of a Chance

title: Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

original_title: 真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん

title: Trick: The Movie 2

title: Happy Together –All About My Dog–

original_title: 犬とあなたの物語 いぬのえいが

title: Legal High SP

original_title: リーガル・ハイ スペシャル

title: Samurai Commando Mission 1549

title: The Inugami Clan

title: Airport 2013

title: Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love

title: Yamagata Scream

title: Soup

original_title: スープ〜生まれ変わりの物語〜

title: Shippu Rondo

title: Mixed Doubles

title: Trick Shinsaku Special

original_title: トリック　新作スペシャル

title: Legal High 2 SP

original_title: リーガル・ハイ スペシャル２

title: My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

original_title: 僕のヒーローアカデミア THE MOVIE ～2人の英雄～

title: Masquerade Hotel

title: Trick Shinsaku Special 2

original_title: トリック新作スペシャル2

title: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever

original_title: 仮面ライダー平成ジェネレーションズFOREVER

original_title: 蒼天の夢 松陰と晋作・新世紀への挑戦

title: Trick Shinsaku Special 3

original_title: TRICK 新作スペシャル3

title: A Flawless Concierge

original_title: ステキな隠し撮り〜 完全無欠のコンシェルジュ〜

title: Designated Lawyer

title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012

title: Yatterman

title: Kohaku no yume

original_title: ハルさん～花嫁の父は名探偵!?

original_title: 劇場版 仮面ライダージオウ Over Quartzer

title: Discord

original_title: 不協和音 炎の刑事 VS 氷の検事

title: Kaiji: Final Game

original_title: カイジ ファイナルゲーム

title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

original_title: ガメラ3 邪神＜イリス＞覚醒

title: Akuma no Temariuta

title: Godai - The Wunderkind

original_title: ストロベリーナイト アフター・ザ・インビジブル・レイン

title: Last Scene

title: Kikoku

original_title: コンフィデンスマンJP プリンセス編

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: Fortress of Skulls

original_title: 髑髏城の七人 Season風

title: 天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～

original_title: 天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～

title: My Father's Dragon

title: New Abarenbō Shōgun

title: Visas for Life

original_title: 日本のシンドラー　杉原千畝物語　六千人の命のビザ

title: The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant

title: Black Showman

title: Faking Beethoven

title: ベトナムのひかり～ボクが無償医療を始めた理由～

original_title: ベトナムのひかり～ボクが無償医療を始めた理由～

title: Maiko Haaaan!!!

title: Ninkyo Gakuen

title: 女王の教室 エピソード1〜堕天使〜

original_title: 女王の教室 エピソード1〜堕天使〜

Hanawa-sensei wa Hanninmae!?

original_name: 花輪せんせいは半人前!?

Truth of Zero

original_name: ゼロの真実～監察医・松本真央～

Ghost Mama Investigation

original_name: ゴーストママ捜査線～僕とママの不思議な100日～

original_name: 臨床犯罪学者 火村英生の推理

Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot

original_name: Jimmy～アホみたいなホンマの話～

Atama ni Kitemo Aho towa Tatakauna!

original_name: 頭に来てもアホとは戦うな！

The Golden Piggy

original_name: 黄金の豚 －会計検査庁 特別調査課－

original_name: 初めて恋をした日に読む話

Angel Bank

original_name: エンゼルバンク～転職代理人

女マネージャー金子かおる　哀しみの事件簿

original_name: 女マネージャー金子かおる　哀しみの事件簿

Tokyo Scarlet

original_name: 東京スカーレット～警視庁NS係

Map for The Wedding

original_name: 結婚するって、本当ですか

JK to Roppozensho

character: 人助けおじさん / ホクロの男

イケ麺新そば屋探偵～いいんだぜ！～

original_name: イケ麺新そば屋探偵～いいんだぜ！～

それって!?実際どうなの課

original_name: それって!?実際どうなの課

Colors of Sisterhood

original_name: 若草物語―恋する姉妹と恋せぬ私―

Why I Dress Up for Love

original_name: 着飾る恋には理由があって

A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You

original_name: 波うららかに、めおと日和

ブラックトリック～裁きを操る弁護人～

original_name: ブラックトリック～裁きを操る弁護人～

title: Gozamareji


Sharon Gans

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sharon Gans (born July 29, 1942, in New York City) is an American actress. She played the part of Valencia, Billy Pilgrim's wife, in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five. Gans starred in the award-winning documentary Artists and Orphans: A True Drama.

In October 1988, Gans directed the play The Legend of Sharon Shashanovah, presented at the 47th Street Theater in New York City. Gans co-wrote A Chekhov Concert with Jordan Charney that was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Theater.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharon Gans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

title: Slaughterhouse-Five

overview: Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

character: Valencia

original_title: Slaughterhouse-Five

original_language: en

place_of_birth: New York City, New York

title: Slaughterhouse-Five

media_type: movie

known_for_department: Acting


Cao Yu

biography: Cao Yu is a famous cinematographer. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in feature film photography, and worked in photography at Beijing Film Studio.

Tales of Chinese Filmmakers

character: Self

original_name: 我在中国做电影

original_language: zh

Wo zai Beijing deng ni

job: Creator

overview: In New York Fashion World anything is possible

department: Creator

original_name: Wo zai Beijing deng ni

普通话

曹郁

biography: 曹郁，1974年8月15日出生，1997年毕业于北京电影学院本科故事片摄影专业，任职于北京电影制片厂，中国内地摄影师。

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: TW

普通话

曹郁

biography: 曹郁，1974 年 8 月 15 日出生，1997 年畢業於北京電影學院本科故事片攝影專業，任職於北京電影製片廠，中國內地攝影師。

iso_3166_1: HK

job: Director of Photography

title: 1921

overview: Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.

department: Camera

title: Legend of the Demon Cat

overview: During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan.  A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.

original_title: 妖猫传

title: My Country, My Parents

overview: This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles of key groups across four pivotal eras: the revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the new era, while highlighting their perseverance, dedication to ideals, and commitment to passing on the national spirit through generations.

original_title: 我和我的父辈

title: The Cord of Life

overview: Alus is a nomadic electronic musician who accompanied his mother with Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland and spent the last time with his mother.

original_title: 脐带

job: Executive Producer

title: The Cord of Life

department: Production

title: Driverless

overview: Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with several relationship issues, including the infamous seven year itch, reuniting with a first love, one night stands, an old husband with a young wife, and extramarital affairs.

original_title: 无人驾驶

title: Mountain Patrol

overview: A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

original_title: 可可西里

title: City of Life and Death

overview: In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

original_title: 南京!南京!

title: Color Me Love

overview: The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who has to deal with her female boss and boyfriend, an arrogant young painter who has a chaotic past with other girls.

original_title: 我的天空

title: The Law of Attraction

overview: Country: China Production Company: Angel Wings Entertainment Genre: Drama Director: Zhao Tian Yu Starring: Wen Zhang, Bai Bai He, Zhang Jing Chu, Guo Tao, Leon Dai, Karen Mok, Bowen Duan, Huang Huan Length: 97 mins Date of release: 8th April, 2011

original_title: 万有引力

title: Eastern Bandits

overview: Movie is set during a period of time when Japanese invaded China. The story is told from Gao's perspective, a soldier seeking revenge from the Japanese in trying to assassinate the visiting Japanese chief in command. In the process of plotting such scheme, he had a chance encounter with a local Mafia, lead by its charismatic leader Fang. Fang had a bandit of followers, of which one is Fang's sister. Fang in the past have rescued many of these followers using his own blood and as a result all the members in the bandit formed a life long bond and friendship. When Gao realizes he could use the firearms and man power of Fang's bandit, he sets up a scheme to get captured by Fang on purpose. When Fang found out - he was extremely angry and upset and almost killed Gao, but Gao is saved by Fang's sister because she clearly developed feelings for Gao after seeing how he fared during the interrogation phases when he was in Fang's capture.

original_title: 匹夫

title: Forever Young

overview: From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the trials and tribulations of the cultural revolution, and one's duty to nation in time of war, they are faced with choosing their individual paths through history. But as the challenges and turmoil of each generation may differ as time changes, what was learned in the past cannot help but effect the choices that are made in the future as it is passed down from generation to generation. And that is the universal message that being true to yourself is precious. It is the source of strength that empowers one to become the person they want to be, to march forward as far as their hearts desire, into the future.

original_title: 无问西东

title: Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

overview: In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.

original_title: 九层妖塔

title: Chicken Poets

overview: Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.

original_title: 像鸡毛一样飞

title: Love in the Internet Generation

overview: Three love stories that take place in the modern 'internet age'.

original_title: 网络时代的爱情

title: My People, My Homeland

overview: In different parts of rural China, various people explore what makes their communities unique.

original_title: 我和我的家乡

title: Decoded

overview: In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication codes in a timely and accurate manner. Rong Jinzhen has shown amazing mathematical talent since her childhood, and because she solved the problems assigned by her math teacher, she was noticed by more people, and even walked into the door of code-breaking by mistake.

original_title: 解密

title: The Eight Hundred

overview: In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

original_title: 八佰

job: Associate Producer

title: Village Rockstars 2

overview: Dhunu, now in her late teens, still climbs trees, swims, and most importantly, dreams of continuing her childhood life as a guitarist in her rock band. However, life does not unfold as Dhunu wishes. As she faces the bitter and sour moments of life, she stands on the threshold of leaving her once-happy childhood behind.

original_title: ভিলেজ ৰকষ্টাৰ্ছ 2

original_language: as

title: Flowers from the Ashes

overview: A coming-of-age story about the lives of two teenage boys set in Beijing during the 1960s.

original_title: 少年时代

job: Cinematography

title: Who Has Ever Seen the Festival of Wild Animals?

overview: Teenager Jiang Zi is molested at a public toilet in a large city. He turns to his friends for support but to no avail, and his family is also incapable of understanding, leaving Jiang Zi very depressed. Feeling abandoned, he suffers alone in his shame. His only solace comes from watching the television program "Animal World."

department: Crew

original_title: 谁见过野生动物的节日

title: 神探之痕迹

overview: The film follows criminal police officer Cui Xun over half a century of investigative work. Alongside his colleagues, he solved numerous major cases while staying true to his original aspiration of 'serving the people.' This legendary detective not only witnessed the evolution of China's public security system but also stood as a living testament to the rise of New China.

title: 1921

title: Legend of the Demon Cat

title: My Country, My Parents

title: The Cord of Life

title: The Cord of Life

title: Mountain Patrol

title: Color Me Love

title: The Law of Attraction

title: City of Life and Death

title: Forever Young

title: Driverless

title: Eastern Bandits

title: Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

title: Chicken Poets

title: Love in the Internet Generation

title: My People, My Homeland

title: Decoded

title: The Eight Hundred

title: Village Rockstars 2

original_title: ভিলেজ ৰকষ্টাৰ্ছ 2

title: Flowers from the Ashes

title: 神探之痕迹