Cast: Akiyoshi Nakao

Direction Yuri Kanchiku

Cast Hikari Mitsushima · Takeru Satō · Rikako Yagi · Akiyoshi Nakao

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2022). 9 Episodes. Young, free and madly in love. As teenagers, the world was their oyster — but as adults, their lives seem dimmer, like a very important piece is missing.

Direction Masaaki Taniguchi

Cast Riisa Naka · Akiyoshi Nakao · Narumi Yasuda · Masanobu Katsumura

Synopsis When scientist Kazuko is given an old photograph of herself with a mysterious young boy, she becomes so distracted that she gets into a serious accident. As her teenage daughter Akari sits by her hospital bedside, Kazuko suddenly awakes with...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yûta Hiraoka · Takahiro Miura · Kana Kurashina · Akiyoshi Nakao

Synopsis Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective...

Direction Shinji Higuchi · Isshin Inudô

Cast Takayuki Yamada · Takehiro Hira · Mana Ashida · Honami Suzuki

Synopsis In the year 1590, powerful daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi nears his plan to unify all of Japan, but he comes across a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika must use his army to defend the castle.

Direction Hideki Takeuchi

Cast Haruka Ayase · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Tsubasa Honda · Kazuki Kitamura

Synopsis Kenji (Kentaro Sakaguchi) is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki (Haruka Ayase) who came from a black‐and‐white movie.

Direction Mitsuno Michio

Cast Keisuke Koide · Akiyoshi Nakao · Hiroyuke Onoue · Rokkaku Shinji

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

Direction Daisuke Miura

Cast Taisuke Fujigaya · Mieko Harada · Karina · Atsuko Maeda

Synopsis The story of a part-timer's escape from life. Will he end up in heaven or hell? The birth of 'escape-from-reality' entertainment.

Direction Masatoshi Yamaguchi

Cast Jirô Satô · Mai Shiraishi · Saki Tateno · Takayuki Yamada

Synopsis "Yareta Kamo Iinkai" ("Could Have Done It Committee") has three members: Yuzuru Nojima, Ayako Tsuki and Oashisu. People who did not do something in their past (but think they could have) go to the committee and tell their stories. The...

Direction Masaki Nishiura

Cast Takao Osawa · Takako Tokiwa · Masato Hagiwara · Ryô Katsuji

Direction Masaaki Tezuka

Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Kyoka Suzuki · Haruka Ayase · Masatô Ibu

Synopsis 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...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Takumi Kitamura · Yuri Nakamura · Akiyoshi Nakao · Toshie Negishi

Synopsis Makabe Shuichi (Yamazaki Masayoshi) is a professional thief who sneaks into people’s homes as they sleep in the dead of night. However, after unwittingly stumbling upon an attempted murder during a routine break-in, Makabe finds himself recalling something that happened...

Direction Masatoshi Kurakata

Cast Kimiko Yo · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Takashi Tsukamoto · Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Yûka Tano · Anna Ishibashi · Jin Shirasu · Toru Watanabe

Synopsis High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991....

Direction Yûichirô Hirakawa

Cast Ryûta Satô · Hayato Ichihara · Keisuke Koide · Takeru Satō

Synopsis Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an...

Direction Hiroshi Nishitani

Cast Dean Fujioka · Takanori Iwata · Kuranosuke Sasaki · Maho Yamada

Synopsis Sherlock moves to Tokyo, Japan. Sherlock is a freelance criminologist. He is a brilliant mind who has the nose and acumen for detecting and finding criminal activity. Unfortunately, he also misuses his skills.

Direction Ryûichi Inomata · Makoto Naganuma · Naoko Komuro

Cast Haruka Ayase · Mirai Uchida · Ryoko Hirosue · Tsubasa Honda

Synopsis TV Miniserie (2017). 10 episodes. Isayama Nami, in order to start over her life and to find happiness, married the man she fell in love with at first sight during a blind date and moved to a quiet high-end residential...

Direction Naomi Tamura · Naomi Kinoshita · Miyuki Honma. · Kôji Ono

Cast Oji Suzuka · Yûko Araki · Honami Satô · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis Miyabe Arata, owner of the Roppongi Nidaime Miyabe bar, fights against those who have absolute power. His goal is to take revenge on Nagaya Holdings, a giant in the Japanese food industry.

Direction Renpei Tsukamoto · Takashi Komatsu

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Masami Nagasawa · Saeko · Tomohisa Yamashita

Synopsis TV Series (2005-2021). 21 Episodes. Kenji Sakuragi is a lawyer and former member of a motorcycle gang. He takes on the challenge of preparing a special class for a famous stupid school, Ryuuzan to enter the prestigious Toudai University.

Direction Takahiro Aoyama · Yûichirô Hirakawa · Aya Matsuki

Cast Haruka Ayase · Kazuki Kitamura · Issei Takahashi · Tasuku Emoto

Synopsis Ayako Mochizuki investigates a murder case. From the evidence she collects, she targets Haruto Hidaka as the murder suspect.

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa · Shin Katô · Shin'ichi Sanjô · Hirotsugu Takenoshita

Cast Hideko Hara · Tetsuya Takeda · Aya Ueto · Miho Konishi

Synopsis Kinpachi Sakamoto is the homeroom teacher for a group of third-year students known as the "B-Group". The students are from a wide range of backgrounds, and have an equally wide range of hopes, plans and problems. Mr. Sakamoto sticks by...