Dobu, an unconventional detective, teams up with Yoriki Samon to solve crimes in Yaoyacho, Edo, showcasing their courage and detective skills.
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Dobu, an unconventional detective, teams up with Yoriki Samon to solve crimes in Yaoyacho, Edo, showcasing their courage and detective skills.
Tatsuya was killed in a car accident and his spirit lives in Hikata - the one who killed him in the accident. Since then, he had a hard time trying to change his girlfriend's perception of "him" or "Hikata" while still trying to protect her.
"The strongest youth drama from Nagoya where you can laugh and cry". The stage of the first bullet is Village Unguard in the AEON MALL!
A hot-blooded and meddlesome resident police officer, Ryō Shirase, is transferred to the southernmost manned island of Narumijima, where the Southern Cross can be seen. At first, it is thought that the peaceful island, in which people don’t even have to lock up their houses, does not need the resident police officer, but his personality and enthusiasm gradually change the minds of the islanders, who have been suffering from an aging population, a declining birthrate, and feeling of hopelessness…
Iori Hojo, a college student indifferent to love, becomes intrigued by novelist Kaho Kanenori after meeting him at a cafe where Iori works part-time.
Horiguchi Gaku, Yonezawa Mao, Ita Koki and Jin Jun are friends and they all attend the same prestigious university. They have spent most of their time studying and they have 90 days before their graduations. Greatly inspired to become men by the time they graduate, they meet girls who are ideal in their own opinion. At times they collide, at others, they fail or forget their objective? They keep having hard struggles along with warm friendships.
In the year 1580, a man named Lord Nobunaga Oda sends hoards of unholy armies across Japan, slaying all who stand in their way. A young ninja escapes her villages' destruction with a short sword, one of the three mystical weapons that can end Oda's rule. During her quest, she is joined by two other ninjas who wield the other two weapons of legend, the sacred sword and spear.
Kotone Matsushima has always relied on her “cunning cuteness” to get her way — until she meets Nazuna Sahara, a rival just as charming and clever. What begins as a clash for attention quickly escalates into a fierce battle of wit, charm, and pride between the two women.
Nagasawa Masami stars as a woman working at her family's antique shop. One day, a man shows up at the store with a mysterious camera that has the power to reveal a person's future worth.
Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels.
A deeply suspenseful drama in which a young lawyer who survived the murder of his family 30 years ago confronts a criminal on death row. Thirty years ago, a family of three was slaughtered. Facing the death row convict accused of the crime is young lawyer Yusuke Asari (Hideaki Takizawa). Yusuke has been retained by a woman who wants him to request a retrial for the death row convict. The death row convict is none other than Kozo Yanase (Kenichi Endo), who killed Yusuke's parents and grandfather. Yusuke thus finds himself in the difficult position of requesting a retrial for the man who killed his own immediate family... As he goes over the accident, a series of shocking facts come to light one after the other. All these facts are somehow related to Yusuke, .and lead him to find the answer to the question: "Who am I?" His sense of duty as a lawyer and his emotions as a lonely man are put to the test. What awaits him once he overcomes bewilderment, conflict, and pain?
Magerarenai Onna is a Japanese television drama that aired on NTV between 13 January and 17 March 2010. Ogiwara Saki, 33, is a woman who does not go with the flow of society but forges her own path. She hates flattering men and trying to be nice to people of the same sex. She has failed the bar exam ten times in a row but persists in her dream of being a lawyer while working as a clerk at a law firm. Saki's good friend, Hasumi Riko, who is a mother of two children, was high school classmates with Saki, but is in fact 35, because she had deliberately declared herself to be two years younger. She has no qualms of lying for the sake of female happiness, pretending to be married to a man of wealth and blessed with children. Because her personality is the exact opposite, this accentuates Saki's uncompromising way of life. -Jdrama Weblog
Webseries directed by Shunji Iwai.
Yuna, a shy college freshman who dreams of becoming an influencer, joins a seaside love reality show by chance. But behind the glitz, most contestants are chasing fame—not love—and the show's director will do anything for views. In a world full of lies, can Yuna find something real?
In a unique high school drama, chemical elements come to life as characters whose personalities mirror their real-world properties.
Yuichi Yamada works as a magazine editor. He has recently transferred to Kyoto from Tokyo. In Kyoto, he comes across a French couple who are lost. Yuichi Yamada doesn't speak French and ask for help from nearby tobacco shop owner Yoriko Shindo. Yoriko Shindo speaks French fluently and she is able to help the couple. Meanwhile, Yuichi Yamada takes an interest in Yoriko Shindo.
The Hanabishi family moves into the old building "Kogure Photo Studio." The first son Eiichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a 2nd year high school student. One day, a neighbor, who is also a high school student, shows him a picture. That picture was developed at "Kogure Photo Studio."
This is not a story of heroes. Since time immemorial, warriors called musha have ruled the battlefield, granted supernatural power by their enchanted suits of armor - tsurugi. Minato Kageaki is one such musha, driven by duty to don his crimson armor and challenge the greatest evils of an age. But though madmen and tyrants fall to his blade, never will he claim that his battle is right. For the tsurugi he wields is cursed Muramasa, which five centuries ago brought ruin to the land, and innocent blood is the price it demands in exchange for its terrible might. "Where there are demons, I slay them. Where there are saints, I slay them." These words are an oath, the unbreakable Law binding him to his armor. But they also tell the story of his past, and of the future to come.
Hadashi no Gen is a Japanese television special drama. The drama come from the one of the popular manga "Barefoot Gen" written by Keiji Nakazawa, from his real experiences as an atomic bomb survivor. The drama was the third special drama of the Sen no Kaze ni Natte drama special by Fuji Television in 2007.
While vacationing in Australia, Nagase Tomoya, his girlfriend Kanno Miho, and friend Okina Megumi cross paths with Honjou Manami. A tragic accident occurs when Manami accidentally hits Miho with a dune buggy. Though Miho insists she's fine, she later dies from a head injury. Guilt-ridden, Manami struggles with the weight of her actions, while Nagase masks his growing feelings for her with anger. Okina seeks justice for her friend's death, unaware that the lawyer helping them is actually Manami's boyfriend. Amid guilt, grief, and conflicting emotions, Nagase and Manami find themselves drawn to each other in an impossible love that defies their circumstances.
The special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small yakitori restaurant.
The arrogant “famous detective” Mercator Ayu, he who wears a fancy top hat and suit combination, steps in to help a famous female author who is receiving mysterious playing cards every day and suspects she might be a potential murder victim.
In 1947, a year heavily tinged by the scars of war, Kitazawa Taro, Mitamura Kiichi, Arikawa Nobuo and other fellow poets who would play a central role in post-war Japan’s modern poetry movement gathered for the launch of the poetry magazine ‘Arechi’. 28 years later in 1975, a 53-year-old Kitazawa works at a newspaper’s proofreading department as he continues scrape by composing poetry. Although he is not prolific as a poet, he cherishes ordinary happiness every day surrounded by his wife Haruko and their daughter Yuko and son Sho. But a big turning point comes for Kitazawa one day. He develops frequent contact with Akiko, the wife of his good friend Mitamura. Falling in love with her, he abandons his job and leaves his wife Haruko and two children behind. As he starts to live with Akiko who has also left home, he recovers an unprecedented passion and “words”. Each of them start to live the life of the “wasteland”. --JDramas Weblog
The drama is a family story with a lot of black humor about the tragedy and joy of three sisters who gave their mother a trip to a hot spring for her birthday.
Morino Hotaru is a second year high school student who has had an unrequited crush on Otaka Ren since junior high school. One day, while on a school trip with Ren and her good friend Yamamoto Shiori, their bus gets into an accident. When Hotaru wakes up, a young man who is dressed fully in black appears in front of her. He is Kuro, a grim reaper.
Dreaming of pure love, Kiriyama Saori meets an ikemen company president, Shimotsuke Kura, at a match-making party. She agrees to a platonic relationship with him. But Kura limits their dates to 2 hours each time. He tries to touch her by giving various reasons, and Saori’s friend Mura-chan becomes suspicious of Kura’s lady-killer ways. Before long, Saori realizes Kura's true nature..!?
About a salaryman who is about to be retrenched and to make things worse, his family walks out on him. He is given a chance to reverse his fortune when he is sent to help a struggling ballet company financed by his company so that their year-end performance "Swan Lake" can be a success despite knowing nothing about ballet.
A teenage girl has to decide if she is capable of being captain of the school's cheerleading squad.
Two young men, one an aspiring idol and the other struggling to find his place, reunite and set out to transform their small town, leading to a chaotic yet soul-searching summer.
Oda Nobunaga slips back in time to the present and arrives on the set of "Oda Nobunaga", a historical drama serial. "This is not who I really am!", the short-tempered Nobunaga loses his temper and rewrites the script without permission. It was a small, small-scale drama, just a bunch of maniacal and slightly funny episodes, not a "Taiga Drama" at all. Now filming has begun on a historical drama directed by the real Nobunaga that is "ridiculous but all true"!
Adapted from the novel "Rika", this series depicts the younger days of the lead character Rika from the original drama series in 2019.
The stage is five years after "Borderless", Nao, Kiri, and Kotone have started a new life on their own. One day, a novel written by Kiri will be published under the name of a popular young actress. Kiri is dissatisfied but cannot resist. In addition, "incidents" occur to trace the incidents in the works. They can't believe it's a coincidence, who imitated what and why? As they tried to get to the bottom of the truth, an inescapable tragedy struck them again...
Hiyama Fuyumi (Nakama Yukie) is considered to be Japan's best brain surgeon, but her links to a series of past murders has made her nearly unemployable. Still, the Director of the university hospital she once trained at wants her to come back and perform an important surgery on an ailing soccer player. But the hospital holds some dark secrets in its past; ones that may come forth and bring more deaths around Fuyumi...
Hajime (Ryuji Sato) and Ryo (Toshiyuki Someya) are brothers. They hoped to perform at the Budokan one day, but, after their mother died, they went their separate ways. Years later, the 5 member band Daidarabotchi decides to do a live performance. The group was formed by Hajime. A week before their live performance, their vocalist suddenly quits. Hajime, who plays the guitar, takes over on vocals. He aims to perform at Budokan and hoping to be recognized by his older brother Ryo. (taken from asianwiki)
Chushingura is a famous story in Japan on 47 samurai in the Edo period who avenge their lord against Lord Kira, who was the cause of the master's death. This drama based on Ikemiya Shoichiro's book focuses on Terasaka Kichiemon, the only survivor of the 47 samurai. After raiding Kira's residence and taking avenge, Terasaka receives an order from Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the group to escape from the site. The rest of the samurai is ordered to commit seppuku by the Shogunate and kill themselves. Living in disguise and receiving contempt from others, Terasaka struggles to follow Oishi's order. He works to pass down the true intention of avenge to the next generation and at the same time looks after the families of the 46 members.