Cast: Shôfukutei Tsurube

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Tomoko Tabata · Shinobu Chihara · Kiichi Nakai · Junko Sakurada

Synopsis Renko is a youngster whose parents have just divorced. Her father moves out and she has to adapt to a new way of life.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Synopsis Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ryo Kase · Yû Aoi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yuriko Ishida

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Eita · Teruyuki Kagawa · Haruka Igawa

Synopsis Director Miwa Nishikawa hit the ground running with her wicked 2003 debut, Wild Berries (Hebi Ichigo). Small, tightly wound tales dealing with duplicity, plot twisting revelations and keen eye for life’s absurdities put her in a similar league as Argentina’s...

Direction Yasuharu Ishii

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Sho Aikawa · Maki Horikita · Mao Daichi

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Yui Natsukawa

Synopsis In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Yui Natsukawa · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Synopsis The three grown children of a couple approaching their 50th wedding anniversary are shocked when their mother demands a divorce.

Direction Masahiko Tsugawa

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yoshino Kimura · Hôka Kinoshita · Akira Tanaka

Synopsis A dying old man named Shomantei has one last request. It is a different one. He would like to see the vagina of a young and pretty virgin. The family scrambles to fulfill his wish, but soon there is a...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hiroshi Abe · Yuko Takeuchi · Shôfukutei Tsurube

Synopsis Helped by her nephew, Koji, Etsuko runs a lovely little seaside café where the locals like to gather, gossip and drink her delicious coffee. People with problems are somehow attracted to the café, and by meeting Etsuko their lives begin...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Riho Makise · Shôfukutei Tsurube · Takatoshi Takeda

Synopsis A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Ittoku Kishibe · Katsuya Maiguma · Toshiyuki Nagashima

Synopsis In August 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the area around Sakhalin Island. Ezure Tetsu escaped with her two sons from Sakhalin Island and arrived in Abashiri City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. What awaited them was extremely cold weather and famine. They...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoki Sakata · Yasutaka Oh · Ken'ichi Makino

Synopsis A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and...

Cast Jun Matsumoto · Teruyuki Kagawa · Hana Sugisaki · Jin Katagiri

Synopsis Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a...

Direction Hideta Takahata

Cast Tasuku Emoto · Lily Franky · Nanoka Hara · Manami Hashimoto

Synopsis A second generation Japanese-American lives in the Pearl Harbour era. The man was born in Los Angeles but attended university in Japan. He returned to the USA and works at a Japanese newspaper. Then the second world war starts. He...

Direction Junichi Suzuki

Cast Masaya Kato · Narumi Yasuda · Tomokazu Miura · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Kaneko Fuminori · Katayama Osam · Toshio Tsuboi

Cast Gen Hoshino · Aoi Yû · Junichi Okada · Tomoya Nagase

Synopsis The show revolves around Rakugo, a traditional Japanese comedy that can look back on a 400 year long history. It tells about a Yakuza who goes to a Rakugo performer to collect debts, and a talented comedian who tries to...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Tôma Ikuta · Yûko Araki · Mark Chinnery

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Gou Ayano · Nana Komatsu · Ryôta Bandô

Synopsis Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a...

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Jun Kunimura · Minami Hamabe · Min Tanaka · Masaki Suda

Synopsis In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War II.

Direction Tomoyuki Furumaya

Cast Juri Ueno · Haruma Miura · Shôfukutei Tsurube · Yorie Yamashita