Drama
The joy of spending money wisely! An unlikely family “money” drama!
24 year-old Miho lives alone in a stylish part of Tokyo. It’s been a year since she started work, but she’s not started saving for the future at all, spending her hard-earned money on fashion and food, only focused on having fun ...
One day, your husband transforms into a woman...?
This drama explores the many differences of life, love and relationships can change in a world where peoples bodies can spontaneously alter sex!
Akira is a 30-year-old salaryman married to novelist Sonoko. After five years of marriage things betw...
Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter (2022)
A high school girl, Koume, and her working stiff father, Kyoichiro, wake up one day after a traffic accident to find they have switched bodies. The two had been drifting apart, but are now thrown into each other’s lives. Kyoichiro, for example, shows no interest in Koume’s love interest, a classmate...
What would you do if one day the person you love is diagnosed with a developmental disability? The heartwarming tale of what happiness looks like for one married couple.
Chika, who works in retail, and manga artists assistant Satoru get married and start living together. Bubbly, excitable Chika a...
Close Tail -Detective Academy-
Tailing, bugging, stakeouts...this riveting human drama realistically portrays the work of private detectives, charting the growth of a group of trainee detectives.
University student Tasuku graduates from university without a career path planned.
Returning home, he finds his father Jinpei has a...
Sato Shinohara is a woman who grew up in a downtown area where she and her mother run a local diner. Mentally strong with a cheerful personality, she is the poster girl of the diner and is dearly loved by the regular customers.
One day, Kenta Miyama, the guy she is dating, proposes to her and she a...
Kyoka is perfectly happy being single as is her father, Rintaro, a forlorn widower who lost his beloved wife, Yoko, to cancer. One day as the two clean house, they stumble upon a divorce form signed by Yoko. Shocked and reflecting on this revelation, Rintaro at age 63 decides it’s time to start over...
Haruto is a young businessman whose game company struck it rich, giving him a fancy suburban home, a beautiful wife, Michiru, and a grade school daughter. But when the daughter is taken in a serial kidnapping, Haruto reassesses his priorities. Confronted with a series of challenges and revelations a...
Tsuyoshi “Nanba,” the second son of a hardcore family of delinquents, enrolls at an ordinary high school secretly from his parents, simply because he wants to “stop being a delinquent” and just be a “normal student.”
He begins a double life. As a hardcore delinquent who wears a gangster trench coat...
GOSSIP - #What she wants to know
Ririko Seko is transferred from the accounting department to save an online news website from closure. This website run by a major publishing company, is led by a “laissez-faire” chief editor, with most of the employees comprising of an all-male editorial team, which only publishes articles based on...
A slapstick that could happen in any family...with a deep, abiding love at its heart!
Stubborn Gentaro Ito lives with his wife, Chizuru, in an old home in the earthy heart of Tokyo. The two have three daughters. The second oldest, Rika, lives in Osaka, married to Daisuke, a banker. The youngest d...
If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student.
Since losing his beloved wife 10 years ago, Keisuke vows to never remarry. He wants happiness for his only daughter, Mai, but struggles to make a good living and their communication suffers. That is until the appearance before them of a mysterious young girl carrying a schoolbag who claims to be Kei...
Stepmom and Daughter Blues SPECIAL(2022)
Company worker Akiko finds that a business she helped to revive has been taken over by a vulture capitalist, Ryoji, who looks identical to her deceased husband. When Ryoji’s next acquisition turns out to be a beloved bakery, Akiko suspects an ulterior motive and vows to resist. Caught between hatred...
Throughout Japan, there are many delicious foods and drinks full of originality.The shinkansen seat table becomes a personal izakaya (Japanese-style pub) with infinite possibilities!
COVID-19 has made many menu items from famous restaurants available for takeout.Now comes a totally new kind of gour...
The hit series starring Masataka Kubota makes a return for the second season!
Iori Igarashi is a medical radiographer, who is also known as a "hero behind the scences," uses unconventional methods and breaks the mold of academia to find the cause of illnesses and diagnose "invisible diseases" with ...
Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture is home to the headquarters of Toyota Motor Corporation. Whilst leading the world as a center of manufacturing, the city is mostly peaceful countryside, with 70% of its area taken up by forests, and the clear Yahagi River running throughout.
Akari, a university stud...
Shunpei is a single father struggling to care for his five-year-old son. One day, he runs into childhood buddy Sosuke, who decides to help his old friend out. Sosuke’s plan involves renting out the apartment above his rundown okonomiyaki restaurant as a share house and using the money to rebuild. Wh...
How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
Newlyweds Saki and husband Koichi have decided that getting married was a huge mistake. They met by chance and had a whirlwind romance, but their lifestyles and values couldn’t be more different. She’s a fashion editor raised in a modern, liberal home. He’s an ace air-rescue pilot from a strict, con...
MOCOMI was born with a special gift of understanding the feelings of “things” that are supposed to have no feelings.
Some of the people around her had found her creepy and she’s always been hiding her feelings from others.
Her mother had been worried and troubled about her, but her father and bro...
Doctors are also human. That's why they can face life and death.
Full of dream and pride, Masora was working in the emergency department of a large hospital in Tokyo, when one day she is diagnosed with a complicated disease. Even though she is a doctor, she has no savings and wants to continue wo...
Life begins to shine after the 40-year-old office worker who gave up her dreams, work and marriage starts working at a super elderly mature woman bar!
Arata Usui is a 40-year old office worker with no lover, no money, and no guarantee of relief after retirement. She wanted to get married but wasn...
Now sidelined due to injury and age, former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father, Jusaburo, an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure,” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled, left home, and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that hi...
Deliveries from the Heart - True stories from Mercari
People sell items they no longer need; people buy those items.
Touching dramas of people connecting with one another via those items.
The main character is a delivery woman.
Sentimental items that have fulfilled their role head off to new owners.
Every day, men and women of all ages buy and sel...
The Last Train Bound For Nagoya ~Mikawa line~
Episode1
The latest stories take place in three cities of Aichi prefecture ―Kariya, Chiryu and Takahama.
The first night is a story of Takahama.
This story tells about a high-school-boy, Shin Mizoguchi humorously.
He has moved to Takahama city from Tokyo beause of his father's work, and wants to...
Asagao - Forensic Doctor (Season 2)
A forensic scientist daughter and detective father! 2020's most touching drama, showing the uniquely close relationship between the father and the daughter as they reveal the victim's life by following the forensic evidence.
Just like in season one, Asagao works as a forensic scientist, and her f...
A wacky, unprecedented, and unique drama that brings together the best of family-centered dramas, romantic comedies, action stories, and musicals.
After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, Hana and Kazuma now have the newlywed life they dreamed of. However, since Hana is a part of the "L Family"ーw...
The new season of “The Shelter”, a show depicting mentally hurt children and the adults who are trying to support them.
There is prejudice and rejection against children who experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment, and drug addiction. As society becomes more complex, the number of children with n...
Solve a brutal crime… Never! And avoid risk at all costs. Why? Because it's not worth the time and effort.
Introducing a detective drama for the new Reiwa era featuring two hot detectives who are the most passive you'll ever see in a detective series. They never solve any crimes, yet they're super ...
Who would you spend the end of the world with?
The story is set in Japan in the near future, when the world is waiting for a giant comet that will destroy all life on Earth in six months. Life with the seemingly average Kadokura family appears not to have changed at all. They figure if they’re all ...
The Last Train Bound for Nagoya 2020
This is the 8th year for award-winning omnibus drama of people who encounter each other
in the last train bound for Nagoya! We are continuously focusing on regular members from
last series, also have brand new stories starting this year. One big change has arrived this
year; the main cast Rena...
Where will the sorrowful love between the father of a victim and the mother of a murderer go, after it heads towards a catastrophic dark precipice?
This is a story of a collapse and the restoration of a victim’s family, and the family of the murderer involved in the same incident.
When Kyoichi...
Galaxy Express 999 ~Galaxy Live Drama~
It is set in a high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions with perfect fidelity into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality. However poors who can not afford the mechanical bodies are discriminated and persecuted by mechanical people.
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Love Stories From Fukuoka 14 Tenjin Love Song
Miki is a senior in high school, living in a small town of Kasuya-machi (Fukuoka, Japan).
After being betrayed by her classmates and ex-boyfriend in the past, she no longer trusts people or goes on dates. The only thing that gave meaning in her life was music.
Singing with her guitar, she shares...
People hides who they reallyare. But social media makes you show your true color.
Akari Kagari is a bright young woman, living with her family happily. One day, Akari is filmed dealing with an irritated customer at her coffee shop professionally and becomes famous on the Internet overnight. In fa...
She was just a single mother, living happily with her “common-law husband”... But one day, she gets a call from the police, who tell her that her husband has been murdered.
She rushes to the hospital, only to find that there were two other “wives” besides her! As if that weren’t enough, as part o...
TV Drama “Yowamushi Pedal Season 2“
Based on highly popular Japanese manga, 15 million copies sold to date, "Yowamushi Pedal" is a live action drama of battle between high school road race cycling teams aiming for the top. In season 1, Akihabara loving anime geek Sakamichi fell in love with cycling and bloomed his talent for hill clim...