Kansai Telecasting Corporation



Kansai TV is the leading commercial broadcasting TV station in Kansai area, which covers Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and other major cities in Japan. We are producing and broadcasting variety of programs including drama, sports, news, documentaries and game shows. Among our TV programs, our dramas are prestigious in Japan and other countries. We are also delivering live entertainment, video on demand services, DVDs, feature film productions.

Our prestigious dramas including "CRISIS" which was selected to be Asia World Premiere of MIP TV 2017 in Cannes, France, drama remake, formats, entertainment, animated films and our award winning documentaries.


Head Office

Head Office:
2-1-7 Ogimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-8408


Established

Established:
February 1, 1958


Contact(s)

KAZUHIRO SATO

Global Sales Manager

Programs

And Then There was One Yuriko

そして、ユリコは一人になった

Yuriko, an unconventional girl with a conventional name, finds herself in the centre of a web of mysterious events at her new high school. A series of tragic accidents seem to be connected to the strange urban legend that says there can only be one Yuriko at the school. As she starts to dig into the...

  • Action
  • Suspense

  • Action
  • Suspense

Avalanche

アバランチ

An underground group of special investigators, Avalanche tracks down criminals who conspire with government officials to break the law. After collecting evidence using tactics that border on the illegal, Avalanche kidnaps wrongdoers and forces them to confess in a court of their own making: social m...

  • Travelogue

  • Travelogue

Budget Trip in Japan

2人で5万円!ニッポン満足旅

Do you think traveling in Japan cost a lot? Actually not that much. There are so many yummy food, tourist activities and quality accommodations that can be enjoyed with reasonable prices. This program will show you the tips of budget trip in Japan!

In this show, these hosts below visit Tokyo, Yok...

  • Comedy
  • Gameshow

  • Comedy
  • Gameshow

CRAZY CAROUSEL

QUIZ GO ROUND 流れきる前に選びとれ!

The first co-development project by KANSAI TV and Red Arrow Studios International.
CRAZY CAROUSEL is the comedy gameshow inspired by Japan’s Sushi Go-Round restaurants.
Three teams are served up surprising questions and unique challenges where every possible answer or task is delivered on a giant ...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Suspense
  • Scripted Format
  • Action
  • Detective
  • Suspense
  • Scripted Format

CRISIS

CRISIS 公安機動捜査隊特捜班

Based on award-winning writer Kazuki Kaneshiro's story,"Crisis" focuses on Inami and Tamaru, two members of a secret team of specialists working directly under the jurisdiction of the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency.

In an age when the nation is under the threat of unimaginable crim...

  • Action
  • Detective

  • Action
  • Detective

Diver-Special Investigation Unit-

DIVER-特殊潜入班-

The spread of criminal organisations around the city is out of control - Kyoto police are forced to take action. A special task force has been set up and elite undercover operatives known as DIVER are sent to infiltrate the underworld and conduct dangerous undercover investigations.
Inspector Kuros...

  • Romance

  • Romance

Don't Use Time Travel for Love

時をかけるな、恋人たち

Meg is a highly respected art director at an advertising agency. When it comes to love, however, she just can’t ever “cross the line” and often finds herself crying as she drinks alone saying, “I want to fall in love…” Meg suddenly meets Kakeru, a time patrolman from the future, and together they wo...

Elpis

Parliamentary secretary Toru Washizu has devoted 20 years of his life to Kosuke Inukai, a member of parliament and cabinet minister. Toru works behind the scenes as Inukai's "shadow," deftly handling the petitions of Inukai's supporters and crushing any hint of scandal. Cool and collected, Toru rare...

  • Suspense
  • Suspense

FINAL CUT

ファイナルカット

A young man,who lost his family
due to false accusations based on
biased reporting,uncovers the
truth of the people who framed
his mother as a criminal.
His"weapon"is FINAL CUT.It is a fatal
video that ends one's life when it
goes public.

  • Human
  • Suspense
  • Mystery
  • Medical/Health

  • Human
  • Suspense
  • Mystery
  • Medical/Health

Medical Team Lady da Vinci's Diagnosis

Shiho was a neurological surgeon who decided to resign after hallucinating during an operation. But the director of the Toko University Hospital, held Shiho in high regard, and invited her to the Analysis and Diagnostics Department as a diagnostician, to identify and determine the etiology of diseas...

  • Romance

  • Romance

My Dear Exes

大豆田とわ子と三人の元夫

Omameda Towako has been married and divorced three times. That’s led to gossip: “See her? She’s had three ex-husbands! I bet she’s got people problems.”
But while Towako and her exes are divorced, they’re certainly not separated. A head waiter, a lawyer, and a photographer, Towako’s three ex-husban...

  • Comedy
  • Romance

  • Comedy
  • Romance

Naked Dining ~Love, Life and Liberation~

全ラ飯

Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Even – especially – the cool, handsome and popular Sota. He's obsessed with keeping up appearances. With his elite and public-facing government job, he has to be. But his guilty pleasure? To tear off all his clothes and eat food in the nude! Naked dining is the one bl...

  • Human
  • Suspense

  • Human
  • Suspense

Path of the Dragons

竜の道

“We’ve always had each other, haven’t we brother? Together we crawled from the gutter, and we both know where our path now leads…”
Two brothers, a Yakuza mobster, and a high ranking civil servant - their lives may be different but they share their thirst for revenge. In this suspenseful thriller w...

  • Suspense

  • Suspense

School Police

青のSP(スクールポリス)―学校内警察・嶋田隆平―

Ryuhei Shimada is an excellent but stubborn detective who has chosen to work at a public junior high school as Japan's first-ever school police officer. He soon discovers that the seemingly-normal institution is teeming with problems that he is determined to solve: cyberbullying, sexual harassment, ...

Tadao Ando Words for the Next Generation

安藤忠雄 次世代へ告ぐ

Internationally renowned, award winning, visionary, architect Tadao Ando needs little introduction. His unconventional designs shook off old orthodoxies and his iconic buildings can be seen in cities around the world. Shot in breath-taking 4K, this documentary allows Ando to speak directly to the ne...

  • Romance

  • Romance

The Last Three Times We'll Meet

あと3回、君に会える

“All of a sudden it would appear - the number 3 In the middle of their back. Whether they were lovers, friends, family or even strangers, I knew what it meant when I saw it - It meant I would only meet that person three more times in my life.”
In an era where life is often rushed, this pair of dram...

  • Travel

  • Travel

TOKORO JAPAN

新説!所JAPAN

In this program, musician and television personality George Tokoro selects topics that are uniquely Japanese, and with the help of experts, uncovers the mysterious or unknown aspects of each topic. This is a fun and intellectual variety show that examines the country’s food, history, science, geogra...

War of Traps

Parliamentary secretary Toru Washizu has devoted 20 years of his life to Kosuke Inukai, a member of parliament and cabinet minister. Toru works behind the scenes as Inukai's "shadow," deftly handling the petitions of Inukai's supporters and crushing any hint of scandal. Cool and collected, Toru rare...