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- StarsMao InoueJun MatsumotoShun OguriMakino Tsukushi is an ordinary student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school for the ridiculously rich and privileged which is ruled by the Flower 4, or otherwise known as the F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families.
- StarsErika SawajiriRyô NishikidoHiroko YakushimaruThe story of a 15-year-old high school student, Ikeuchi Aya, who soon discovers she has an incurable disease that affects the cerebellum of the brain. Aya lived her life to the fullest until her death at 25.
- DirectorKenji IkedaStarsKazuya KamenashiJuri UenoMasaya Katô
- DirectorHiroshi YoshinoStarsKazue FukiishiKazuya KamenashiMegumiA drama about friendship that spans ages, this is based on a true story which chronicles the life of a man who died at the age of 23 after an illness that started with the partial collapse of his cranial bone, and a subsequent battle with seven types of incurable diseases.
- DirectorKoji ShimenoStarsSaki FukudaAmon HoshinoNonoka Imaizumi
- DirectorMayumi KiuchiStarsTomoka KurokawaHiro MizushimaRina EzawaThe story is about the secret game between two childhood friends. In that game, Kurokawa is a princess and her friend Mizushima is her servant. They promised to keep on playing the game until someone finds about it.
- DirectorGô ShichitakaStarsSakuraThe films tells a story about Shinkansen train attendants and their everyday lives and duties. Although their job is demanding and often hard they find a lot of satisfaction in it.
- DirectorMeiji FujitaStarsMeisa KurokiMiki MayaYûki YagiAbout the Manchu princess Yoshiko Kawashima who served as a spy for the Kwantung Army and as a military leader for Manchukuo.
- DirectorToshio LeeStarsRenji IshibashiMasami NagasawaTakashi TsukamotoTeruko, a third year university student, comes across as a forthright and sunny girl but is in truth a rather timid person. She's also the sort who easily gets carried away and does things impetuously only to regret her actions later. Influenced by her older brother who has taken to wandering the world, Teruko too hopes to make her own journey one day but she lacks the courage, content to live the life of a normal university student - However, she's also plagued with the insecurity of having done nothing she can be proud of in her lifetime, and mustering all her courage embarks on a solo trip to India - While in India, she meets a fellow backpacker, Shingo. Teruko first regards Shingo as a frivolous person but as his encouraging words clear her hesitation and touches her, she falls in love with him. Then, Teruko plans to head to Bodh Gaya to see India's biggest festival but Shingo.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraMasayuki OchiaiTakashi ShimizuStarsKayoko ShiraishiShôzô EndôYoshinori OkadaDark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.
- DirectorYûichi SatôStarsSatoshi OhnoMasaki AibaShô SakuraiSaigo no Yakusoku (The Last Promise) is a suspense drama about five men working in or for a company that is hijacked by terrorists. Satoshi Ohno plays a janitor who cleans the offices within the building. Kazunari Ninomiya plays a character who works within the security center of the building. Matsumoto Jun plays an express service biker who enters the building to deliver a package to the President's daughter, played by Kuroki Meisa. Sakurai Sho plays an insurance agent who enters the building attempting to sell insurance to one of the employees. The drama shows how these five men attempt to escape the building.
- DirectorKen ArimaStarsHiguchi-kunYukijirô HotaruYûko ItôA patrolman who loves puppies receives an abandoned puppy from a boy. He adopts the puppy instead of sending it to animal shelter. Then he finds the puppy's family are all abandoned.
- DirectorKazuya KonakaKazuaki TakanoStarsJûdai IkeshitaTakeshi KatôYôko Maki"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever since her acquaintance was murdered a few days ago, she realizes that she has also become a victim of a stalker. Half believing it, she decides to hang around with Keishi. Later, with the help of Sawaki, a detective she knows, the stalker is identified. She thinks the case is closed but a totally unexpected person attacks her.
- StarsRyunosuke KamikiShôta SometaniYasuko Matsuyuki"Kokoro no Ito" tells the story of a deaf woman (Matsuyuki) who has raised her son (Kamiki) with hopes of him becoming a top-class pianist. The son is burdened by her high expectations, but then he learns about her past.
- DirectorJun AkiyamaStarsKôichi SatôTasuku EmotoSeiji Rokkaku
- StarsHiromi Nagasaku
- DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsEri FuseGekidan HitoriMako IshinoOne morning, Sanbe Youko comes to work and learns that department manager Ito has committed suicide and section manager Imanishi is missing. Furthermore, Imanishi is suspected of embezzlement and murdering Ito. Youko is then instructed to find Imanishi.
- DirectorRyo NishimuraStarsYui AragakiKento KakuNatsunaRanma, who suffers from a curse that turns him into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water. In order to remove the curse and inherit a dojo, Ranma seeks out a secret hot spring, but he encounters a mysterious enemy.
- DirectorKôki MitaniStarsEri FukatsuToshiyuki NishidaHiroshi AbeA comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.
- DirectorTakeyoshi YamamotoStarsTakako TokiwaTakashi NaitôKei TanakaThe prominent wealthy businessman Ichihara Takahide passed away due to illness. His relatives all came to the high-end Japanese inn "The Crossing" to hold a seven day funeral ceremony. Of course, the most concerning thing for them was the distribution of the estate. Everyone harbors ulterior motives, yearning for maximum benefits, and is particularly wary of other people's calculations, making so-called familial relationships insignificant. At this critical moment, a mysterious and beautiful woman suddenly appeared in front of the Ichihara family. She claimed to be the daughter of an elderly woman who had some connection with the deceased during her lifetime. In the quiet of the night, greedy people who dream of becoming rich did not wait for their inheritance, but instead waited for the arrival of death. The shattered love, the shattered life, and the seeds of bad karma that were once planted begin to sprout in "The Crossing".
- DirectorKentarô OhtaniStarsMasaki OkadaRiisa NakaHaruThe drama will be an original story about the past of the brilliant mercenary doctor Black Jack, during his days as a medical student.
- DirectorTakashi FujioStarsHiroki NarimiyaSatomi TezukaMasahiro TakashimaA documentation of a real-life musician Ozaki Yutaka.
- DirectorSetsurô WakamatsuStarsYasuko MatsuyukiRyôSei Ashina
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTeruyuki KagawaEmi WakuiA Japanese made-for-TV remake of Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs (2002).
- DirectorKyôji OhtsukaStarsChika ArakawaRei DanMitsuru Hirata
- DirectorHidetomo MatsudaStarsRyôko YonekuraChizuru AzumaShirô Itô
- DirectorIsamu NakaeStarsNao MatsushitaErika TodaMiki NakataniThe story is about three women who all live in the same countryside town but who never interact with one another even though they are all tied by the same tragedy. While newly-unemployed Rika tries to get her ailing grandmother to take a needed surgery, she also struggles to come up with the money to pay for it. A mysterious benefactor known to her only as "K" might be able to help, but her grandmother is steadfast in telling her to decline it. As Rika searches for clues as to who this "K" is, she increasingly finds that she and two other women are linked not only by a tragedy but a chain of flowers as well.
- DirectorMitsuru KubotaStarsHiroshi TamakiRena TanakaKazue FukiishiYamamura Shuji runs staffing "Family Romance Company" - a company that rents out people to act like their client's family members for occasions like weddings, funerals and meeting with teachers. One day, a customer, who wants to be loved by a family, comes to the "Family Romance Company." The customer's name is Tosaki Ryunosuke, who only has only one month left to live. Yamamura Shuji takes on the request of Tosaki Ryunosuke, but something which Yamamura Shuji does not expect occurs in the process.
- DirectorKôki MitaniStarsKiichi NakaiKyôka SuzukiZen KajiharaAfter 10 years of marriage, a couple finds itself walking on a small path in the mountain. Allowing them to discover one another.
- DirectorNaoki TamuraStarsGorô InagakiYumiko ShakuYusuke KamijiKamen Rider G was a television special featured on Japanese boy band SMAP's television show SmaSTATION on January 31, 2009. Produced in association with Toei Company, TV Asahi, and Ishimori Productions, the special celebrated TV Asahi's 50th year being on the air as well as acting as a promotional piece for the 10th Heisei Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider Decade.
- StarsMansai NomuraNanako MatsushimaSôsuke IkematsuThe Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
- StarsOsamu MukaiMikako TabeKenta KiritaniThe story of Saeki Kentaro, who continues to fail the National Bar Examinations and lose sight of the goal of his life, and his old sister Keiko, who is a freelance writer looking up their grandfather Miyabe who died in the Pacific War as a Kamikaze pilot. Miyabe had an astute ability as a pilot of fighter planes, but he was extraordinarily afraid of death. His two grandchildren started wondering why he applied for the Kamikaze corps. Revealing Miyabe's unexpected title of "genius yet coward", they unveil a surprising fact which has been sealed for over 60 years.
- DirectorKazunari HoshinoStarsYûdai ChibaRei DanMasato Hagiwara
- DirectorKentaro HorikirizonoStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaTamiyasu ChôFumina HaraThis drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in 1945, when the country was under General Headquarters. It depicts sweat and tears of the staff and singers at that time struggling to bring music to the people who have suffered in the war.
- DirectorKôki MitaniStarsSayaka AokiToshiki AyataSôsuke IkematsuAn airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.
- DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsMika AiharaYasunori DantaMasato HagiwaraA doctor loses his family and tries to commit suicide, only to be saved by a female vampire and turned into one himself.
- DirectorJôta TsunehiroStarsKeiko KitagawaOsamu MukaiIkki Sawamura
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaMamoru HoshiShûsuke KanekoStarsKirin KikiNaoki MatayoshiAkiraA large real estate company held a social gathering aboard a cruise ship around Tokyo Bay. Then its president is fatally stabbed. The ship never once stopped and it is impossible for someone to board from the sea.
- DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsTatsu KanekoIttoku KishibeNobuko MiyamotoMayu Daimon (Ko Shibasaki) is a rookie detective. There are secrets about her birth. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, two old men's bodies are found in a row. Their deaths seem unrelated, but Mayu discovers a connection. It all started in the 1960's in Aomori, Japan.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KishiStarsSatoshi TsumabukiHana ToyoshimaHaruka KinamiHaru (Toyoshima Hana) is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother's younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell Yuko what she really feels. On the first day of the summer vacation, Haru is kidnapped. The culprit is her free-spirited father Takashi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) who disappeared from home two months ago. He is scruffy, pathetic, poor and unemployed. Her dependable mother Kyoko (Kinami Haruka) has given up on him and they have been living apart. While Haru neither likes nor dislikes her good-for-nothing father, she gets excited about the kidnapping which will take her where she likes. But Takashi seems to have made some bargain with her mother by holding Haru hostage. Haru is in the dark about the details. Her father brings her to the sea, mountains and various places. During this time, Haru learns how the romance between her parents started, is piggybacked for kilometers and even meets his ex-girlfriend Nori-Chan (Mitsushima Hikari). Through this strange yet thrilling summer journey, she gets to know a side of her father that was previously unknown to her. Takashi eventually runs out of money and the "trip" between father and daughter comes to an end.
- StarsMao InoueJun MatsumotoShun OguriAfter a year of separation, Makino and Domyoji see whether their love can triumph over the many obstacles placed in their path. F4 (Flower Four), 4 close friends, are crucial to their journey.
- StarsAya UetoRyô NishikidoSaki AibuA young woman struggles against the odds in achieving her dream of becoming a Japan Airlines Cabin Attendant.
- CreatorKozueko MorimotoStarsYukie NakamaKatsuhisa NamaseKen UtsuiGokusen is the story of Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, a fourth generation crime syndicate member. She's gone straight and wants to be a teacher though, but she's one you don't want to mess with.
- StarsKazuya KamenashiTomohisa YamashitaMaki HorikitaA popular high schooler and his oddball friend help a shy girl get rid of her bullies by attempting to make her the most popular girl in school.
- CreatorYayoi OgawaStarsKoyukiJun MatsumotoSatomi IshiharaSmart, successful and good-looking Iwaya Sumire works for a big newspaper. However, her boss asks her to leave for being too "perfect" a woman. Feeling angry and dejected Iwaya returns home depressed, and most of all lonely. However, when she finds an unconscious young man lying in a box out the front of her home and takes him in. He looks like a dog she used to own called Momo. She dub shim Momo and decides to "keep him as a pet." It's the start of an unexpected life together as they overcome obstacles and become quite attached to one another. But can love like this exist?
- StarsHiroshi AbeMasami NagasawaSaekoKenji 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.
- StarsKazuya KamenashiHaruka AyaseErika TodaA poor man falls in love with a rich woman in the 20s. Her outlook on life is like a middle school girl and his outlook on life is like an old man. She shows him that not all rich girls are stuck up, that some are humble and sweet and good to disabled children.
- StarsJuri UenoHiroshi TamakiEita NagayamaTwo musicians united in talent, divided by nature - the upper-class perfectionist Chiaki and the sloppy middle-classer Nodame - fall in love.
- StarsRyôko ShinoharaRie TomosakaJin AkanishiNaoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called "anego" by her younger co-workers. What is "anego"? It means "older sister," but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to her coworkers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything. This drama depicts realistically how Naoko lives her everyday life, including her love life, the problems she faces, and her uneasiness about the future.
- StarsAsami KumakiriSadao AbeTakumi BandoEach episode of the series tells a story about a different young woman. The stories are based on the very popular cell-phone novel of the same name written by the famous writer Yoshi.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaMaki HorikitaYui IchikawaKurosaki, aka Kurosagi (Yamashita Tomohisa), is a swindler who cheats other professional con artists to help their victims and avenge the death of his own family. Kurosaki buys information about other swindlers from the man who cheated his family, Katsuragi Toshio (Yamazaki Tsutomu).
- StarsTomoya NagaseYui AragakiYûya TegoshiThe series is mainly about a 27 year old man named Makio Sakaki. His purpose is to become a successor after his father. However, he must pass high school first in order to prove himself worthy in the family for if he fails, his younger brother will take over, instead of him. Through the school years, he faces many obstacles such as righteousness, friendship, and perhaps even love.
- StarsAnne SuzukiRyô NishikidoSaki AibuEtsuko Shinomura, a girl who wants to start a girl's crew team at her school. However, in order to do so she needs to find at least 4 other members. She is met with many challenges - i.e. finding enough members, bearing the weight of being captain, going through training, and experiencing some setbacks. However, with the help of her coach, childhood friend, and the rest of the boy's rowing team, she and the rest of her team are able to overcome those obstacles. A sports drama about hope, hard work, and perseverance.
- StarsSanma AkashiyaTakuya KimuraKô ShibasakiA cat and mouse game begins between a chef and a detective investigating a presumed suicide that turns out to be a murder.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaSatoshi TsumabukiYôsuke KubozukaA group of high school students and teachers are suddenly transported from the year 2002 to a post-apocalyptic 2020. As they struggle to survive, they question the meaning of fate.
- StarsYû AoiJun'ichi OkadaSadao AbeThe 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 change his destiny.
- StarsShunsuke KazamaTôma IkutaYûki HimuraAkihabara is a Tokyo district full of mangas, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku. Page, Box, Akira, Taiko, Daruma, and Izumu are six otaku each with his/her own troubles and sought relief through a website called "Yui's Lifeguard." When site owner Yui died of a mysterious death, the six who are each experts in their own fields gathered to form "Akihabara@DEEP", a "trouble shooter" group that vows to protect Akihabara and solve the problems of its inhabitants.
- StarsSatomi IshiharaToshirô YanagibaMaria TakagiAoi Misora is a third-year nurse at a prestigious hospital. After she is involved in trouble at the Emergency Center, she is transferred to a medical ward of an affiliated hospital. Unlike her previous workplace, the medical ward is a crucial place where patients who survived the emergency room must be looked after with extreme care. But it's also a place for dishonest and unskilled doctors. It's also a place for cozy ties between politicians and doctors, where the priority is not patient care but profit. Still, Aoi puts every effort forward to take care of patients with her heart and soul. The harder she tries, the more she is alienated from the proud doctors. But with the support of another nurse, Kyoko Komine, and also Dr. Takagi, Aoi succeeds in changing the minds of those around her.
- CreatorIra IshidaStarsTomoya NagaseAi KatôYôsuke KubozukaMakoto who lives in Ikebukuro West Gate Park, an area known for juvenile delinquency and gangs, tries to solve the mystery of the death of a friend, he finds himself very indisposed in many mysteries and problems.
- StarsKenji SakaguchiTeppei KoikeSadao AbeRyutaro Asada, a renegade but brilliant surgeon, was being framed for a misdiagnosis and let go by the North Japanese Hospital. He went into exile and lived in a seaside shack when he was visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital. Despite being a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She was ambitious and set her goal to be promoted to full professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique - an extremely difficult type of heart surgery - and to write a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro's skills when he was an NGO doctor and was impressed enough to seek his assistance in the Batista technique. This drama exposed the difficulties encountered in the rigid Japanese medical professions in treating patients whereby decisions made were based more on protecting the hospitals than the patients.
- StarsMasami NagasawaShin'ichi TsutsumiKyôko KoizumiHigh school student Hoshi Izumi loses her father suddenly in an accident. One day, Sakuma, the waka gashira of a small and weak Yakuza gang in Asakusa - the Medaka Gumi - pays Izumi a visit along with the gang members. The death of their former kumicho (Boss) puts Medaka Gumi on the verge of a breakup. Therefore, Sakuma begs Izumi, the former boss's only distant relative left, to succeed to the kumicho position. Izumi is taken by surprise and keeps refusing at first. However, she ends up becoming the 8th kumicho of the Medaka Gumi! The police tell her that her father's death may possibly be a homicide case. There's also Mayumi, a mysterious woman staring closely at Izumi's father's photograph at his funeral. The situation becomes complicated when the drug-dealing vicious yakuza, Hamaguchi Gumi, comes into the picture as well as Sandaiji Hajime, a politician whose public stance is to eliminate drugs.
- CreatorMitsuru AdachiStarsTakayuki YamadaSatomi IshiharaMako IshinoA Japanese television show adapted from the manga of the same name about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
- StarsYumiko ShakuMasato SakaiJun KanameA female editor facing doubts about her career and personal life and what's ahead for her as she tries her best at coordinating with a mysterious comic artist in Japan.
- StarsEita NagayamaHiroshi TamakiKyôko FukadaLocked away deep in his home and hiding a secret that keeps him there, Detective Kozaburo Himuro remains ever vigilant in his duties of police work. But how does the wunderkind detective investigate crime scenes without ever stepping out of his home? Enter traffic cop Kurumi Ayaki. She's a young lady who's about to marry and resign from the force when tasked with being Himuro's eyes and ears on the beat. While on the scene of the crime their only means of communication is via mobile phone. Together they investigate a series of mind-boggling murder mysteries that put them, particularly Kurumi, in constant danger. Can Kurumi keep up with Detective Himuro, and the fast-paced and dangerous work of criminal investigation?
- StarsHaruka AyaseTakayuki YamadaKimiko YoOne boy kills his father to save his first love. One girl takes the life of her mother to protect the boy. The two commit a crime to hide another, and move on with life, turning their backs against the sun.
- StarsNaohito FujikiErika TodaEmi SuzukiKitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya to find a group of girls to dance Para-Para. Along the way, he becomes a new type of hero, helping to solve problems that afflict Shibuya-Gals.
- StarsRie MimuraTaizô HaradaEita NagayamaTakako Meguro's dream has always been to get married and quit her job. But one day, she finds herself working as a teacher at a night school. At first, she is unmotivated and doesn't take her work seriously. But she soon finds out that work at night school is tougher than she thought. There's a high-school dropout, a businessman, a cabaret girl, and many others-every student is either strange or extraordinary in one way or another. Half of the students are older than Takako, and she discovers that one of the students was her classmate in elementary school. Now that she sleeps during the day and works at night, Takako is unable to attend drinking parties to meet guys. She starts to think that's how life is, and she should go with the flow. But one night an incident ignites Takako's passion for her job, which explodes into an angry scolding of her students.
- StarsTakuya KimuraKyôka SuzukiKyoko HasegawaSet in the late 1960s decade of Japan and follows the rivalry between Manpyo Daisuke, a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei, the executive managing director of a steel firm.
- StarsHiroki NarimiyaRie MimuraAkashi TakeiYuuji is still a first-grade student, he is having a very hard time understanding what has happened to his mother and the fact that she won't be coming back. At the very beginning , the voice of the late mother is reading from a picture book that she wrote for Yuuji before she died. It is about a mother who dies, but promises to return when the rainy season comes. Yuuji believes in this story and thinks that his mother will come back when the rainy season comes. And surprisingly - she actually does. When it begins raining on a June morning, Yuuji runs out into the forest to the special place where he used to play with his mother. His father, Takumi chases after him to get him to go to school. When they arrive at the old ruined building where they used to play, Yuuji's mother, Mio is waiting there completely alive and healthy, but she has no memory of them or anything that occurred during her life.
- StarsKoyukiTakuya KimuraKahoKanzaki Jiro (Takuya Kimura) (who used to be a star driver back in Japan) is a backup F3000 driver in Europe. During a practice run, he accidentally crashes into his first driver and loses his job. No other club in Europe would hire him as he is deemed too old for the sport. He has no choice but to return to Japan to his previous racing team. Unfortunately, the team now has a better and younger driver, and feels Jiro has nothing more to contribute to the team, and does not want him back. He returns home to stay with his father and sister, and found out his father has converted their home into an orphanage for unfortunate children whose parents are unable to take care of them. Tonomi Sensei (Koyuki), is a newly hired caregiver at the orphanage. She is not popular with the children as she does not seem to understand their feelings and makes misguided attempts to help them. Despite the fact that Jiro hates children and is more interested in getting back into racing then helping out at the orphanage, he nonetheless agrees to be the orphanage's driver in exchange for being allowed to live there. This is a family film that addresses lost bonds, adolescence, family and a number of other points. The audience would be similar to that of Rosanne and Tool Time.
- StarsSei HiraizumiGuts IshimatsuYoshie IchigeIn 1988 Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept students who had previously dropped out of high school from nationwide. Hokkaido Broadcasting (HBC) has been covering this school for 15 years and aired a documentary last spring that caused a stir all over the country. Now TBS in cooperation with HBC will create a drama based on the school. The drama will follow a former gang member, dropout and graduate of the school who returns as a teacher. We will follow him as he helps graduating students out into the world. The teachers and students will, as you would expect, confront all the issues of youth and society today. At this school, there are no compromises, no lies. This drama will move you as both students and teachers face a variety of issues head on. This is a moving story that is created by people coming together and learning to believe in each other.
- StarsJun'ichi OkadaShô SakuraiWakana SakaiTwenty-one year old former high school baseball player, Kohei (nickname: Bussan), learns that he is dying from cancer. He is told that he only has six months to live, and decides that he wants to do something daring and risky. He proposes to five trusted members from his former baseball club that they form a ring of cat burglars that would steal from those who commit crimes. His friends think it odd,but feel they cannot turn down a dying man's request. With only six months, how much could they do anyway?
- StarsJoe OdagiriKumiko AsôKôsuke ToyoharaKiriyama Shuichiro works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. As he is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the legal time frame (statute of limitations) i.e. the culprit cannot be charged even if he/she is caught, he investigates the cases without permission with the aim of "confirming" the culprit only. Some characteristics of this character would be his dark green spectacles, his wallet containing 20,000 yen at all times and he likes udon and nyuumen.
- StarsSaya YukiYui AragakiYuria Haga" If you are with me you can get it. This is Shibuya but it is not Shibuya. This is where Shibuya 109 is next to 108 (Tokyo), and the highways signs write Shibuya. The people who live in this virtual world are "Shibuya 15". The only thing real is the pain. "
- StarsTerunosuke TakezaiYuka HôshakuChisato MorishitaJapan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and fall in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.
- CreatorShinobu KaitaniStarsErika TodaShôta MatsudaMichiko KichiseTrusting, gullible Nao suddenly finds herself participating in the mysterious Liar Game, a game where the players are issued large sums of money which they then have to cheat each other out of. A few get rich, while the rest find themselves in debt for life. Nao's opponent is her former teacher. Relieved, she goes to him for advice, but is tricked into giving him all her money. With no idea of how to retrieve the money to avoid debt, Nao is desperate. When she gets a tip that a genius swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, is about to be released from prison, she turns to him for help. With some initial reluctance, Akiyama agrees to be her right-hand man in the game. As the two get pulled deeper into increasingly difficult levels of the game, it gradually becomes clear that their participation was far from coincidental.
- CreatorSatoru HiuraStarsHaruka AyaseNaohito FujikiYuka ItayaWhen she's not at her fancy job, Hotaru just wants to relax at home - until her landlord's son shows up, and it's none other than her fastidious boss.
- CreatorFumiya SatôStarsRyunosuke KamikiMirai ShidaRyôsuke YamadaNotebooks that foretell deaths, numerous urban legends, and murders with no clues - a series of strange incidents occur, and people are lead into a deep labyrinth of mysteries. Five fledgling teen detectives of the Dan Detective Academy, which was founded by the legendary and renowned detective, Morihiko Dan, work together to solve such difficult cases. Stealthily at work behind the strange incidents is an evil crime syndicate called the "Meiosei". They are a group of intellectuals who have long antagonized the Detective Academy run by Morihiko Dan. The five youngsters make their way forward a step at a time as they come face to face with death, clash with one another at times, reconcile, and deepen their friendship. This is a pop mystery drama series about youth friendship and adventure in the face of united efforts against dark forces.
- StarsKazunari NinomiyaShô SakuraiShûgo OshinariAn extremely intelligent young man in Japan simply lives his life as a high school student and as the one in a considerably poor family who is hired for various part-time jobs, all sprinkled with cheezy but hilarious moments.
- StarsAya UetoShôta SaitôHijiri KojimaThe story revolves around doomed relationship between a teacher Koga Ikumi, who is dying of an inoperable brain tumor, and his 16-year-old student Hina.
- StarsSatoshi TsumabukiKô ShibasakiHiroki NarimiyaYuuki Kai is a senior at a university studying social welfare psychology and trying to find a job. One day, he encounters a girl, Hagio Sae, playing the violin, and becomes intrigued.
- StarsMinamiJin AkanishiYû KashiiA comedy about six student council members at an elite, private high school that caters to the wealthy, who start their own "Leisure Club."
- StarsMasaharu FukuyamaIkkei WatanabeYuriko YoshitakaYukawa Manabu, also known as Detective Galileo, is a genius physicist and university professor who solves unusual mysteries. His partner, Utsumi Kaoru, is a rookie cop.
- StarsYuri NakamuraTaichi KokubunGen HoshinoThe painful tears and deep emotions of the bonds between father and son transcend time in this epic, heart-warming drama.
- CreatorManabu MakimeStarsAyako YoshitaniMina FujiiNatsuki ObamaForced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. When taking roll call on the first day one of his students, Hotta Ito, sneaks into class late, claiming a bogus excuse--that she got a ticket after trying to park her deer in front of the train station. He makes immediate enemies with Hotta when he tells his superiors about her tardiness and attitude. In the following days, he begins to notice something unusual about Hotta, but he can't seem to put his finger on it. With an odd group of colleagues who live together with him, Ogawa slowly accustoms to life in slow-paced Nara, where there seem to be as many deer as people. Walking through Nara Park one day, he begins to befriend the local deer population, feeding them rice wafers. After being confronted by a talking deer who commandeers him to prevent the destruction of Japan, he fails in his first mission and the talking deer exacts punishment--looking into the mirror the next day, he discovers he has turned into a deer from the shoulders up. Ogawa slowly begins to piece the puzzle together: the talking deer, the mysterious student, and a recent series of earthquakes that could spell doom for Japan.
- StarsFumiyo KohinataRyûhei MatsudaChiaki KuriyamaCan a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.
- StarsYûko TakayamaKazuyuki AijimaShigeaki KatôAfter a train ride, father and daughter Kyoichiro and Koume mysteriously swap bodies and pretend to live each other's lives at school and work.
- StarsSatomi IshiharaKento NagayamaAki AsakuraMisako Ayukawa, a woman in her 30s, is an English teacher with ironically poor English skills. She values herself over her students and money over love. She displays arrogance in front of her students, but acts pleasantly around everyone else. However, Misako possesses a brilliant mind for solving puzzles. Motivated by the possibility of rewards and treasure, she ends up tackling various cases on the weekends along with three of her top students.
- StarsShôta MatsudaShôta SaitôRyôji MorimotoTachibana Ayaka, a young woman whose life has been ruined after she lost her boyfriend then her mother became gravely ill. Looking for revenge, she starts out as a hostess with the goal of rising to become the "empress" of the Osaka nightlife scene.
- StarsTakashi SorimachiNanako MatsushimaYôsuke KubozukaOnizuka, a former delinquent finds himself in the role of a high school teacher, facing students who behave just as he used to. Using unusual methods, he manages to reach through to his students and help them with their problems.
- StarsTakuya KimuraTakashi UkajiShingo IppongiKohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor who possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have.
- StarsTakashi SorimachiMirai ShidaTetsu WatanabeProfessional baseball player Shunsuke Og was forced to retire after a shoulder injury. He continues to train in hope of returning to the game, but a sudden accident leads to his death. God decides to give him a second chance, placing his soul into the body of another man, a wealthy fund company manager, but adjusting to his new life isn't easy.
- StarsShun ShioyaSeiko IwaidôAkie SuzukiWhen her mad scientist grandfather accidentally switches their bodies--it's freaky Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and every day. Akira Uehara is mortified when his best buddy starts hitting on "him," and is embarrassed to look at "himself" in the mirror in her underwear. He can't wait to get back to being a boy. But Nanako Momoi has other ideas--she is starting to enjoy life in Akira's body.
- StarsTakuya KimuraTomoko YamaguchiYutaka TakenouchiA group of friends do their best to handle life's daily struggles. Two of them, an ambitious musician and a struggling model, are drawn to each other.