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Arashi Kohei, inherits a pharmaceutical company from his deceased father. Despite the hard work he was doing, six months before his parent's death, many people are trying to take the company away from him. Soon, Kohei discovers allies but also enemies, among the people he least expected it to be. Will he manage to hold his position in such a brutal world?
A touching romantic drama about the love and friendship between a man and a woman who have been in a "more than friends, but less than lovers" relationship for 10 years. A touching love story about love and friendship over a period of ten years. Aozora (Misako Tanaka), an office worker at a foreign-affiliated company, loves her friend's boyfriend, Masakazu (Chisato Oe), and wants to confess her love to him, but she can't betray her friend, so she tries to make up for it with a mistress who looks exactly like him. When Aozora meets Arashi (Hamada Masatoshi) by chance, she sympathizes with his honest way of life and begins to reevaluate her own way of life.
Matsudaira Tadateru (Shin'ichi Chiba) the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu that was stripped of his title and began life under an assumed name in the Red Light district of Edo. He solves crimes, heals the sick, saves the Geisha from evil Samurai and along the way he teams up with Yagyu Jubei (a role played numerous times by Chiba himself). Awesome Samurai Action.
A children's educational TV show featuring a group of child actors, known as "Terebi Senshi," who engage in various challenges and activities to entertain and educate young viewers.
Morio Koga, an employee of a major trading company in Tokyo, returns to his hometown in Hotaka, Nagano Prefecture, after seven years to lead the "Azumino Squall Project." He reunites with his high school classmates and discovers that his first love, Michi Tanaka, is engaged to his friend, Hiroki Hayashi. The redevelopment plan for Koga's company clashes with Hiroki's environmental protection efforts, causing a conflict between Koga's job and friendships. Despite her engagement, Michi finds herself drawn to Koga, who, in turn, attempts to break up with his girlfriend in Tokyo to be with Michi.
Set in early 1900s Tokyo, its story is about a makeup artist named Kosannba. All the women desire to have their make up done by Kosannba because he is the best. He also manages to get intertwined into the lives of many women and proceeds to work out their various problems. (Source: MU)
Shinjuku, 1979. A member of the Kaeda Yakuza gang, Akutsu Shouji, has lost in a brawl with a university cheering squad, and begs for forgiveness through bitter tears. Since then, nothing has gone well in Shouji's life, until 10 years later in 1989, his friend was ordered to kill him, and as he ran away he killed himself, ending his miserable life. But when Shouji opened his eyes, he was in Shinjuku in 1979, at the fight with the university students that caused things to go wrong. Now with ten more years of memories and experience, Shouji repels the university students with spirit and wisdom. Now he swears to wear a gold emblem around town, and begins his life anew.
Eri and Shuji meet as next door neighbors and over the course of a year become lovers. However, just as Shuji is planning on asking Eri to marry him, they are each offered job opportunities at opposite ends of the globe. Pulled apart by their careers, they happen to meet years later and are surprised to find they still have feelings for one another. However, the fact that they are both in serious relationships with other people promises to complicate matters.
Beast Wars Neo is a 1999 Japanese Transformers television animated series and toy line, and a sequel to Beast Wars II.
The story depicts the brilliance of adolescence over the four years of university, from entrance exams to graduation, as the shy and curious girl, Haruka, engages in club activities, becomes independent from her parents, searches for a job, and falls in love.
Long ago, in feudal Japan, there was a fierce warrior named the Demon King. He controlled a band of demons, known as the Kyouma. Only the powers of ten warriors sealed the Demon King away and kept the Kyouma under control. But now, Lord Shindigan, a powerful Kyouma is planning to free the Demon King, and the reincarnations of the ten warriors must band together and save the earth.
This romantic tale involves a co-pilot who aspires to become the pilot of a new Boeing 747-400, and the stewardess he loves. Suddenly, the wife he had believed dead reappears.
The middle-aged couple at the center of this drama somehow seems to pull through despite constant quarreling. The critical husband has clearly found his match in an equally combative wife, with one hilarious encounter after another revealing the love/hate relationship which typically underlies modern marriages.
Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma are the deadly duo, Oni-Baku (Demon Explosion), with the sole mission of losing their virginities. As they turn away from the gang life to accomplish this, old enemies resurface to haunt them, and new ones appear to take their fame.
Momoe lives a life of luxury until one day, she loses everything... her money, her father and her lover. She must now find a way to support herself. With no experience whatsoever, she nonchalently applies for a position at at French restaurant where she once enjoyed a consomme soup many years earlier. Momoe was attracted to the French restaurant, La Petit Lapin, because of the wonderful owner, Kansuke and the delicious soup that was invented by the chef, Orita Keiji. Keiji, a first-rate chef, was trained in Paris at the two-star restaurant, Grand Bleu, and is as a result, a little spoiled and snobby. Find out what happens next when Momoe is taken on as an apprentice and must prove herself to Keiji.
Naoki is smart, handsome and athletic. His friend Sano takes him to watch a tennis game where he falls in love at first sight with Haruka. He asks her out. They get to know each other while trying to balance their studies.
The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that Motoki is this serial killer). Motoki is a police officer with 2 faces: he has an obsession for housewife Maki and is very gentle with her, and on the other side he rapes & tortures one of her friend, Kanda Uno. His ultimate goal seems to make Maki fall in love with him: so he uses her friend Uno to affect her relationship with her husband & he gradually introduces himself into her life. Another person is also obsessed with Maki (she is a sort of public personality as she runs a cooking club with other housewives and appears in magazines), harassing her all the time on the phone, spying on her, etc...: this person is close to her as he knows things from her past (her son drowned in an accident). Motoki also had an ordeal in his past: his mother was killed in a fire, by her lover.
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
Koizumi Kyoko stars as Asako, a 32 year old woman working for a Beer Company. She gets set up with an affable 38 year old man named Koichi (Yanagiba Toshiro) who tries to win her love against competition like a younger co-worker and off-putting best friends!
Tokiwa plays a sharp tongued reporter for a major daily newspaper. She was demoted to a sleazy tabloid as a punishment for breaking the reporter's code of conduct. While working in the tabloid, she discovered that she has the freedom of uncovering the truth behind a murder case.
Tendo Yoshimi is the farthest thing from an angel you can think of. Dressed in black from head to toe, he loves to tease and often acts rashly. He can work neither magic nor miracles. So, why should a down-on-himself pessimist like Shiro believe him when Tendo predicts he will die if he doesn’t complete the tasks set out for him? Starring Jinnai Takanori, Matsuoka Masahiro, Okina Megumi.
Following on the heels of "Stalker," this title continues the same theme, focusing on a young woman, Suzu, infatuated with her older sister's husband, Takeshi. As a neuro-psychiatrist, Takeshi has the expertise to diagnose her mental instability, but trying to care for her may only draw him further into her clutches. Looking into the mysteries of her childhood may be his only hope of curing her obsessive behavior before Suzu's violent tendencies threaten those around her.
Koshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.
This is a delightful and heartwarming story about Santa Claus and and the Tonto (fairies) that help him.
Kyoko, an elite career woman working at a major bank, lives a high stress life surrounded by male colleagues and clients that discriminate against her, and a mother who constantly obsesses over Kyoko's lifestyle. As Kyoko is starting to buckle under the pressures of her high profile life, she is approached by a man who inquires if she is interested in working at an escort service. Kyoko refuses the offer at first, but he senses a hidden side to her and persuades her to give it a try. She soon finds herself living a double life: one as a businesswoman and one as a call girl. Her life begins to spin out of control, but a newfound friend may be able to help her escape from her situation.
A photographer accidentally gets hold of a drink that enables him to become invisible, and while getting rapped up in stories in which he never expected to find himself, winds up being the hero.
Kubota Nagisa, a spoiled brash executive, is the chief of Food Import Section in a first-rate trading company. Nagisa is transferred to an affiliate company in the countryside until the mishap she created in her company blows over.
Tired of living with her parents, 26-year-old Miho decides to live by herself for the first time. She works at a department store along with her long-time best friend, Kyoko, and has an extremely affectionate and close relationship with her. She and Kyoko meet Shintani, a mysterious and handsome older man, who Miho at first simply cannot stand. However, the more she sees him, the more she's drawn to him - but even she can't explain why. Until now, Miho has never seriously been in love with someone, and her feelings for Shintani begin to scare her. Also, there's the issue of Kyoko, who is overcome with jealousy at the thought that Miho might abandon her to be with Shintani. Living alone, Miho comes to realize things she would have never realized otherwise; she discovers exactly what kind of person she is. Along the way, she also discovers the truth about people she thought she knew well...(awrittensin on dramawiki)
When Kasumi's husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the next 10 years, he gradually falls in love with Kasumi. Now 35-year-old, Kasumi has resisted loving another man for fear of reliving the pain of losing a loved one. She happens to meet Ryuichi's bad boy younger brother and finds herself physically attracted to him; but Ryuichi finally acts on his bottled-up feelings for Kasumi and asks her to marry him. Kasumi must decide if she can bring herself to fall in love with a responsible man like Ryuichi, or if she can be content with the purely physical relationship that his brother can provide. --TBS
ATHENA (アテナ) is a live action drama series based on Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life game originally broadcasted from April 7, 1998 to June 30, 1998 on TV Tokyo. The series was starred Kei Ishibashi as Athena. A VHS collection including unreleased scenes was released in 6 volumes on Japan. The opening theme Lavender Dream (ラベンダドリーム), is performed by Yuki Ishii.
Yesterday, Chris's biggest problem was getting into a good college. Now, his spirit has been hijacked by wings of light, and transported into an ancient world. Summoned by an enslaved tribe to lead a bloody revolution, Chris must quickly adapt to his new surroundings... or die.
A detective drama that tries to charm you with its story rather than flashy action. The focus was on the guests in each episode, and each time a gorgeous lineup appeared and became a hot topic at the time. The title has the meaning that "a detective who protects citizens is the same as a representative director who protects employees in a company."
After four years in the countryside, his company transfers Kagetora and his family back to Tokyo. In their seven years they have gotten used to the peaceful atmosphere and amiable nature of those in the country. However, they soon discover that the hustle and bustle of Tokyo will take some readjustment. With a militaristic landlady, a middle-aged manager with a wife half his age, a charming foot masseuse, and a younger brother enjoying the youth culture of Tokyo, there are plenty of interesting characters to keep them on their toes. --TBS
Two teenage boys from starkly different backgrounds find themselves joined in a common search to discover how to do the right thing and find happiness in life. One boy, whose father is an alcoholic, works hard to care for his younger brother and sister, while the other enjoys the privileges of a wealthy family, but is starved for his father's love. Their friendship reflects the sadness, pain, and sometimes cruelty that can enter into the relationships between fathers and sons in today's society.
Born as the second son of warlord Oda Nobuhide in Owari province, Nobunaga rises to power after his father's death and gains the support of Saito Dozo in his quest to unify Owari province and bring an end to the chaotic Sengoku period. However, Nobunaga's strong personality incurs the resentment of Akechi Mitsuhide.
13th year of the Genroku era. Matahachiro Aoe, a samurai of the Shonai clan from Dewa Province, accidentally learned that a group of conspirators led by the main vassal of Tango Otomi were planning to poison the Lord. Matahachiro decided to consult with the father of his fiancée Yuki, Kizaemon Hiranuma, an employee of the security department, and told him everything. However, when Matahachiro was about to leave for home, Hiranuma attacked him from behind and Matahachiro defended himself by killing his future father-in-law in front of Yuki. Matahachiro escapes to Edo and provides bodyguard services to earn a living. He is pursued by assassins who are sent by conspirators from his former clan. And soon he also becomes involved in the conflict between Asano and Kira, which arose due to a blade wound in a pine corridor in Edo Castle...
Set in New York , three friends fall in love with the same woman, causing their feelings to waver between friendship and love. One day, Kosuke Kosuke, who works in the publicity department of a film company in New York, has a fateful encounter with Kawakami Makoto, a hair and makeup assistant. It's like an encounter in a Hollywood movie, something Kosuke has always dreamed of. However, just a few hours later, Makoto has another fateful encounter with a man. The man turns out to be a freelance photographer, Higuchi Norito, Kosuke's best friend from college...
Hibio's adventurer mother sets off to research a mysterious tribe.
After spending 20 years searching for the object of his vengeance, Sekiya Kanbei discovers he is now a ronin. Inui Sanshiro was the head of a clan until his son succeeded him, or so he says. Genmu claims to have once been a ninja. These three elderly men join forces to travel the Japanese countryside together. Along the way, they encounter situations that bring out the "warrior" in each of them, and soon they are fighting the corruption and injustices that plague the common people.
Film company engineer Kohei is on his way home one night when he sees a woman taken ill at a train station. He ensures that she gets home safely, at which point the woman, Fumi, tells him, she has conceived, birthed, and raised his child.
The wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's marriage in this hard-edged drama of misdirected passion. The quirky characters who fill out the cast include a youthful entrepreneur and the heroine's father, a police officer who would do anything to make his daughter happy.
Chikako Kaku and Shiro Sano of "I've Always Liked You" (1992) co-star again in a shocking film that depicts the extreme love-hate between a man and a woman with a strong touch of suspense on the theme of marriage. Mario's eccentricities played by Sano attracted even more attention, with the highest viewership of 33.7%. The main character, Kanako (Chikako Kaku), marries her beloved and starts a happy life. Next to it, his former lover, Mario, who abandoned himself, moves in and says that he wants to try again ... The strange love and relationships that begin here, and the "terrifying reverse tama man" Mario extends the devil's hand not only to Kanako but also to her husband. However, Mario was also unaware of his wife's gaze that burned with jealousy of him ... The secret hidden in a love marriage that "cannot be told to anyone" is gradually revealed. The theme song was written by Yumi Matsutoya for the first time in 17 years and became a big hit "A Midsummer Night's Dream".