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Based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular town near downtown Tokyo, and is composed of content that incorporates the storyline of the original work while also incorporating current events and social issues in Japan.
The story is about an unlikely friendship between two women. This intimate look at two lives chronicles their struggle with love, loyalty, and fulfillment. Two women with seemingly different outlooks on life come together against all odds in a fragile attempt to seek out the best of what they have to offer each other and themselves. Can their unexpected friendship survive affairs of the heart? An honest tale of two women unfolds with an end as uncertain as the friendship which drew them together.
A drama about two young couples, both of them having problem keeping their relationship together.
To follow in his missing friend Masato's footsteps, Ryo joined the vehicle company Yaesu. Ryo became involved with the Makuhari test course that Masato was also a part of. The leader, Gray Gear, told Ryo, "If you want to know about Masato, come to the test course late at night and ride the new machine." When Ryo got in the new machine, the Vector Versus, and rode it around the course, he was able to exceed 300 kilometers per hour and suddenly warped into a mysterious space!
A love drama that caused a boom called "Fuyuhiko Phenomenon" when Fuyuhiko's perverted character called Otaku attracted attention in the Mazacon played by Shiro Sano.
Sono toki Heartwa Nusumareta is a 5 part drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from November 19, 1992 to December 17, 1992. It features a theme song by Yumi Matsutoya.
2021, 31 years after World War III: bionics genius Filicia Epstein arrives in Sabano and Sergent Mutou is ordered to protect her. Searching for her only brother, Lyon, Filicia encounters 1019, a cybernoid, who directs them to the phantom city, OZ, a shelter created by Lyon.
A historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary people Chuji Kunisada. The film was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Kinya Kitaoji's acting career.
It is said that the Shinsengumi, led by Isami Kondo, delayed the start of the Meiji restoration by 10 years. This is a large-scale historical drama that tells about their life path up to the battle of Ikedaya.
The tight housing situation in major cities has caused a dramatic increase in the number of duplex houses. What happens to family life when several generations share this kind of environment? This engaging drama shows one glimpse into a new style of family. The husband and wife have built a duplex to accommodate their eldest daughter and her husband-to-be. But this peaceful arrangement is thrown into chaos when the eldest son, a university student, "rescues" his girlfriend from another man in the midst of their wedding ceremony, just as in the movie "The Graduate." What does the future hold? Can a new and more lasting balance be attained in the lives of the family members? Each episode is filled with the tears and laughter of the changing family in this unsettling time.
Katsumi Ebata, a high school student, desperately pursues the whereabouts of Sakura Hasegawa, a two-year-old lover who suddenly disappeared. However, her memory of cherry blossoms had disappeared unnaturally from the people around her. In fact, Sakura was the princess of Nagoya Castle, Sakurahime, who lives in a different world "Japan" that is parallel to the real world. Sakura responded to her return according to her long-held promise, but she left a clue to guide her beloved Katsumi to Japan. She relies on it and she goes to another 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.
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.
Six years ago, Miki and her younger sister, Aya, lost their parents in a ferry accident off the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto Peninsula, and are taken in by their aunt. After graduating from university and working at a bank, Miki has a boyfriend, Mitsuji, whom she has been dating since their student days. Seven years after the accident, Miki attends the seventh anniversary memorial service for the victims and reunites with Yoichiro, who also lost his parents in the same accident, and he proposes to her. Miki broke up with Mitsuji for personal reasons and chose to marry Yoichiro, who worked at a TV station and met the three high standards. Just as the newlyweds and Aya were about to start living together, Yoichiro's older sister, Kaoru, returns after her husband cheated on her. Feeling uncomfortable at her parents' house where her younger brother and his wife and their younger sister live, she begins to interfere in all sorts of things, leaving Miki at a loss as to what to do...
Although Shuichi has lost his wife, there is no lack of female influence in his life. He has three daughters who are eligible for marriage, and an assortment of women friends and lovers that has earned him the reputation of being a playboy. But the real love interest in his life is his female boss. How he and his daughters work out their romantic adventures provides both entertainment and enlightenment in the challenges of finding true love.
Faaren is a peaceful and happy realm, ruled by a wise King... until the Demon Lord Ackdam overruns the kingdom with his black legions and terrifying dragon, killing the King and capturing the Queen. But the King's young son, Sirius, is swept away to safety and grows to be a powerful young warrior, tutored in the ways of swordsmanship and chivalry by his father's loyal minion, Rias.
Ruri, a ditzy high school girl who lost her parents in a fire at a young age, is now living a blissful life with her cousin Tooru, for whom she harbours romantic feelings, and his family. But one day her life is thrown into turmoil, when members of the popular j-pop band B-Flash appear before her and reveal Ruri to be a descendant of the Pulsean Moon's royal family. One by one assailants try to take her life, only to be thwarted by Tooru in their attempts. However, the fate of the two is taken to a trial once he receives a mortal wound trying to protect her.
A Judo student and a dashing young man who plays piano are both of interest to young Nonoka Aida. Then her childhood friend shows up from abroad to keep his promise that he would marry her as declared by her deceased father on his deathbed. This newcomer is determined that Nonoka is destined to become his bride but he will need to stand up to her amazing Judo skills and the affection she shows for her two classmates.
The thirteenth entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series.
Kobo Tabata lives in a typical Japanese family. His father is a normal salary-man, his mother's a typical housewife, his grandparents (from his mother's side) help to take care of the family and it's pets, and his uncle's a slightly obese high school teacher. Still, they manage to find odd situations that sometimes arise due to Kobo's growing up process or simply because of their own habits and misunderstandings.
Nezu no Hamakichi used to be a renowned detective. He had lost his job and been banished from Edo after he was arrested for some reasons. Back in Edo for the first time in 5 years, he has just sold toys. This is a story that Hamakichi resolves difficult incidents.
Sasurai-kun is tired of his life as a salaryman, and decides to leave it all behind to travel across the country.
The special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small yakitori restaurant.
Akira lnugami is infected with a terrible poison, and the only known antidote has an unfortunate side effect – it turns him into a werewolf. He opts for survival but then has to cope with his new desires and with the attention of the military, which is interested in using his affliction for its own purposes.
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.
Manabu and his father Kouhei love Tsubasa in the same time, but they don't know that they are in love with the same girl. Tsubasa doesn't know they are a father and a son. Tsubasa enjoys meeting them in different places and different times. Finally the father and his son ask her which she loves but she loves both.
In these adaptations of lsamu Tsuchida's picture books for children, Tiffle and Tuffle are two little twins in pointed hats who live on Coracle Island and have a few light-hearted adventures.
Life seems simple for Koichi, a young student, until he learns that he is the reincarnation of an alien protector who crashed onto the mantle of responsibility as"defender of the Earth", Koichi/Babel teams up with a trio of super-powered alien companions to battle the the dark forces of an evil cult leader. The war to save humanity takes Babel from the deserts of southern Asia to the upper east side of Manhattan and ultimately to a final showdown with "the master" in a hidden base nestled in the Swiss Alps. The action is fast-paced and deadly. The fate of the world rests in the ability of this courageous youth to tame his latent psychic power and use it to defeat the enemies of mankind.
Gaia Symphony is a television series directed by Jin Tatsumura. The series revolves around the Gaia hypothesis. The series has eight episodes. Each episode examines a small number of extraordinary people who somehow relate to the central theme. Some of the people examined are famous people. For example, Jane Goodall and Reinhold Messner. Created originally in the Japanese language, there are English versions available.
In the past, it was bustling with coal mines, but due to the closure of the mine one after another, the city of Nupuka no Shiki in Hokkaido is currently suffering from depopulation. The mayor, Yamagata, is trying to revitalize the city by proceeding with the construction of the theme park "Tyrolean World" with capital participation from the Kanto Electric Railway in Tokyo. Tateishi, the head of the engineering department of the Kanto Electric Railway, is assigned to Hokkaido, leaving his daughter Aki in Tokyo to be responsible for the construction and operation of Tyrolean World. There he meets Kikukawa, whom Tateishi had dissuaded from committing suicide in the past. Soon complicated triangle forms, beetwen Tateishi feeling responsible for Kikukawa, his wife and Kikukawa himself, trying run from the situation.
Adapted from the novel "Sogiya Shacho Ishihara Akiko Series" (葬儀屋社長 石原明子シリーズ) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).
Date Bukishi is a young man whose family is the old Date-Gumi yakuza group, however, he is not an active part of the Yakuza lifestyle and focuses more on fighting and doing as he pleases. His life turns around when he ends up in prison where he meets his eventually to be most loyal friend, Hyoroken, and together they gather more loyal men to their side, eventually following in the footsteps of the Yakuza world. Conflicts erupt with the Bando-Gumi leader Muroto who is hell-bent on uniting all of the japanese Yakuza under one banner, his banner, and in his way stands the future boss of the Date-Gumi, Bukishi. Based on the same-name manga by Motomiya Hiroshi.
A drama series depicting the career of Saki Ninomiya, Professor of Forensic Medicine at Konan Medical University.
My Patrasche is a 1992 Japanese animated television series adaptation of Maria Louise Ramé's A Dog of Flanders, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The series also became popular in the Philippines through its franchiser ABS-CBN.
The series follows the antics of tenth-grade student Eisaku Yazawa who wants to become a bousouzoku, a motorcycle gang member.
Tomato is one of the 10 knights of the salad kindom. Young and clumsy, yet always ends up saving the day and is admired by everyone even the pretty princess peach, who he desperately falls in love with. Every episode they embark on a new journey to solve a new mission. This would be easier if only the insect band didn't get in their way every time.
Truth or false accusation? A woman with four previous convictions stands accused of murder. Can the power of the pen uncover the truth? One rainy night, a car sped into the harbour and, without slowing down, vanished into the sea. A short while later, a woman surfaced. Her name was Kumako Shirakawa (Ayumi Ishida). Her maiden name was Onizuka. She was the second wife of Fukutaro Shirakawa (Jun’ichi Orimoto), a wealthy man from Toyama, and had only recently married him. Swimming desperately, Kumako managed to reach the quay. As if savouring the feeling of being alive, she let out a blood-curdling scream.
Jiro Ota (played by Kazuyuki Furuya), a teacher who had undergone stomach surgery and was convalescing at a hot-spring inn along the Hida River, found himself caught up in a strange incident.
Travel along the Japan’s railway line and explore hundreds of inexpensive, interesting and easily reachable places within Tokyo and surrounding areas.
The story of Mr. Araiwa and his family. He is a model employee in a large enterprise, but becomes a completely different character at home. He is very keen on cooking and lets pass no occasion to cook delicious dishes for his wife, who is frequently occupied by her work as a journalist, or his young son.