Japanese Drama
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2007
Japanese Drama Casts:
Ichikawa Kamejiro, Ikewaki Chizuru , Shibamoto Yuki
Description
The 46th Historical Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warl...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2008
Japanese Drama Casts:
Higuchi Kanako , Miyazaki Aoi , Nagatsuka Kyozo, Okada Yoshinori
Description
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Atsuhime who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner pala...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2008
Japanese Drama Casts:
Katori Shingo, Yamamoto Koji
Description
The 43rd NHK Taiga Drama is Shinsengumi!. The arrival of Commodore Perry’s "Black Ships" rudely awakened Japan from 300 years of peaceful isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and began to demand change in society. Old clashed w...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2006
Japanese Drama Casts:
Aibu Saki, Koizumi Koutaro , Maya Miki, Nishikido Ryo, Uehara Misa, Ueto Aya
Description
Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2003
Japanese Drama Casts:
Description
The 42nd NHK Taiga Drama is MUSASHI. Many Japanese history buffs are familiar with The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi in the 17th century. Musashi's treatise on strategy and the way to lead instantly became the business executive's bi...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2008
Japanese Drama Casts:
Amami Yuki, Naohito Fujiki, Otsuka Nene
Description
39-year-old Ogata Satoko is a highly capable psychiatrist who is single. She's forthright, a caring older sister and reliable in her job and in private. Her interests are staying in luxurious Japanese inns and watching stand-up comedy videos.
Satoko...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2002
Japanese Drama Casts:
Kohmoto Masahiro, Nabe Osami, Nakazawa Yuko, Oguri Shun, Ookuma Ichirou, Sakata Tadashi, Sawamura Ikki
Description
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students' lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of ...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2008
Japanese Drama Casts:
Ishibashi Anna, Iwata Sayuri , Kimura Ryou , Minamisawa Nao, Mizobata Junpei, Okamoto Rei , Suzuki Kasumi
Description
The story was one of the best-selling novels of 2007, it revolves around the "red thread of fate" connecting the young pair Mei and Atsushi and the trials they face....
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2007
Japanese Drama Casts:
Aibu Saki, Arimura Miki, Karina, Koide Keisuke, Nakata Atsuhiko, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tanaka Kei, Toda Erika
Description
Six agriculture students travel north to Hokkaido for first-hand training and experience in a farm setting. The story focuses not only on their daily life and their growth as young men and women, but also on the economic situation in the region, whic...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2006
Japanese Drama Casts:
Ebihara Yuri, Igawa Haruka, Inagaki Goro, Murakami Tomoko
Description
Popular scenario writer, Yamaguchi Osamu (Inagaki Goro) is currently dating fashion magazine model Ebihara Yumi (Ebihara Yuri). With a high salary and a beautiful girlfriend, one would expect Osamu to be the envy of all around him. Yet there is somet...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2005
Japanese Drama Casts:
Seo Do Young
Japan Casts:
Jinnai Takanori, Nishikido Ryo, Sawajiri Erika, Yakushimaru Hiroko
Description
This beautifully moving drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
1993
Japanese Drama Casts:
Ishida Hikari, Kaga Mariko, Kimura Takuya, Kurosawa Asuka, Nishijima Hidetoshi , Nishioka Tokuma , Sugiyama Ayako, Suzuki Anju, Tsutsui Michitaka
Description
Five youngsters enter the same university and become very good friends. As they're very close, they're afraid of 'hurting' one another, and this results in even more tragedies. Both Tamotsu and Osamu, who fall for Narumi, keep holding back their feel...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2005
Japanese Drama Casts:
Hayami Mokomichi, Kuninaka Ryoko, Nakao Akiyoshi, Tamayama Tetsuji, Tanaka Misako
Description
Tanaka Misako stars as a woman struggling to raise her three sons - played by Tamayama Tetsuji, Hayami Mokomichi and Nakao Akiyoshi - after her husband dies. Kuninaka Ryoko will appear as Tamayama's girlfriend, Chisato.
They don’t know when to sto...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2005
Japanese Drama Casts:
Ichikawa Yui , Ishihara Satomi , Tanaka Koutaro, Yamada Takayuki
Description
Kunimi Hiro was an ace pitcher in junior high school,until he was diagnosed by a doctor as having a "glass elbow". He gave up baseball and joined Senkawa Senior High School's soccer team. But then something happens that reignites his passion for base...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2009
Japanese Drama Casts:
Inamori Izumi, Itaya Yuka, Yamamoto Taro
Description
Typical mother Noguchi Satsuki spent her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggled to communicate. Seiko and Ozaw...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
1998
Japanese Drama Casts:
Kimura Takuya, Nakamura Toru , Nakayama Miho, Natsuyagi Isao, Okada Masumi
Description
Kimura Takuya plays Ito Naoki, a mysterious man that seems to have some special connection with Oba Minako (Nakayama Miho) by their childhood. But Minako has lost her memory long ago and she won't remember anything about her childhood or him. Naoki k...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2006
Japanese Drama Casts:
Himura Yuki , Hoshino Gen , Ikuta Toma , Kosaka Yuka, Matsushima Hatsune
Description
Akihabara 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 ...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2004
Japanese Drama Casts:
Arakawa Yoshiyoshi, Ishida Taro, Saeko, Yamaguchi Tomomitsu, Yamazaki Shigenori
Description
Tomoe, 17, is an average high-school girl, interested in clothes and guys, but her family life is not so average. Losing her mother at a young age, she lives alone with her father, Shouhei and does all the cooking, laundry, housekeeping, like a mothe...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
Japanese Drama Casts:
Hirota Reona, Kawano Naoki , Kojima Haruna, Minegishi Minami, Takahashi Minami, Yingling
Description
The story revolves around three ordinary girls named Asahi, Nami, and Hinata who are aiming to become idols, but they repeatedly fail in their auditions. One day, they witness a serious crime, and they are forced to flee from the culprits. Fortunatel...
Film Type:
Japanese Drama
Release Date:
2007
Japanese Drama Casts:
Oguri Shun, Okada Yoshinori, Shirota Yu, Sugimoto Tetta, Tsutsui Mariko, Yamazaki Hajime
Description
The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya, which has already been dramatized in Taiwan. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi (Oguri) co...