Cast: Hisahiro Ogura

Direction Hiroki Hayama · Ryûta Ogata

Cast Mao Daichi · Mayuko Kawakita · Mirei Kiritani · Ken Kaito

Synopsis TV Series (2015). 13 Episodes. Mayuko finds a job with a high-class lingerie manufacturer in Ginza. It is the story of a woman experiencing confusion, struggle and growth in a world with a new set of values different from any...

Direction Ryô Nakajima

Cast Erena Mizusawa · Keisuke Koide · Shinjirô Atae · Seiji Fukushi

Synopsis Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10,...

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 Hiroyuki Nasu

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Tokito Saburo · Masatô Ibu · Tôru Nakamura

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Synopsis People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small...

Direction Jôji Iida

Cast Akira Emoto · Hisako Hara · Masao Imafuku · Ken'ichi Ishii

Synopsis A kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people.

Direction Mitsuo Kurotsuchi

Cast Somegoro Ichikawa · Yoshino Kimura · Kôji Imada · Ryô Fukawa

Synopsis A young swordsman is forced into a tough situation. He must resolve a potential power struggle that involves his adolescent crush Fuku.

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Hidetoshi Nishijima · Kuranosuke Sasaki · Tsubasa Honda · Hisahiro Ogura

Synopsis What were to ostensibly be fishing boats fire upon nationals and occupy southern islands of Japan suddenly. Enlisted members of the Japanese coast guard are detained and all Japan can do is send an aircraft carrier and a supporting armada...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

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

Direction Gaku Narita

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Masami Nagasawa · Nana Eikura · Yûta Hiraoka

Synopsis TV Miniserie (2007). 11 episodes. Ken and Rei have been friends since childhood. Though he has been in love with her for years he was never able to tell her. On the day of her wedding to another man Ken...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Yôichi Yamamoto · Noriko Watanabe · Yôji Matsuda · Daijirô Harada

Direction Nao Kubota

Cast Yûko Tanaka · Machiko Ono · Dankan · Masanobu Ando

Synopsis Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has...

Direction Toshirô Saiga

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Makoto Kaketa · Keizo Kanie · Gin Maeda

Synopsis Set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, where not much happens and there is a dearth of entertainment citizens depend on the town's amateur orchestra. However, when the conductor suddenly dies and his seventeen-year-old granddaughter arrives there...

Direction Ryu Kaneda

Cast Eri Fukatsu · Yasufumi Terawaki · Kokoro Ikeuchi · Akemi Imamura