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Can a once-famous actor make a successful comeback?!
Daigoro Atsumori was a great actor, formerly known as “the king of two-hour suspense”. However, as time passes, TV stations no longer make two-hour dramas, and now he hasn’t had a role for more than one year.
One day there comes a woman in ...
The Instant fake battle between the guys have a silver tongue about to begin!
That requires a word sense that goes beyond the truth and a rich imagination!
Four Skilled Liar make them improvise own fake story quiz or two-choice quiz, with cool face.
The prize money goes to the true faker who has ...
Since its first airing in 1968, Best Hits Kayosai boasts a history of 54 years.Last year, this program was held without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it will be held with an audience for the first time in three years this year in the Festival Hall in Osaka. Mega-hit artists that...
New comedy show with NO AUDIENCE, NO STAFF, NO CAMERA CREW!
One comedian alone in the studio!
MC and guests are watching the One-Man Show in a remote room.
If they laugh, they press a button each time and prize money increases.
A space with no audience, not even a sound, to drive the comedian’s ...
“Untouchable Tourism,” a travel company run by the comedy duo Untouchable, asks celebrity guests to plan a tour! This program delivers the ultimate tour, filled with gourmet food, beautiful views, and the guest's memories. Plus, they travel to spots based on the guest’s ideas to demonstrate the appe...
Voluntary Appearance: Can You Tell Me Who You Are?
This program dives into surveys of people who work in industries that “seem interesting but have many unknowns.” Looking at the surveys they gathered, the three hosts let their imaginations run wild and select people that particularly stand out to them. They invite the person they chose to represent...
Metaphor Variety Quiz! Hana Kara suika
There are strange “metaphors” that exist in our daily lives (novels, hit songs, famed scholars’ quotes, popular comedian phrases)! This program unearths these unique “metaphors” and teaches their unknown history and unexpected usage! Various panel members enjoy answering quizzes about all kinds of “...
The Secret is Out! HOMETOWN PRIDE KIWAMI
You might not be aware of the secrets hidden in your own country... There are 47 prefectures in Japan, each with its own unique culture and customs. Each one has its own shocking culinary traditions, festivals, and customs that will make you wonder whether they all really come from Japan. The Secret...
There are various rankings in the world, but everyone focuses on the top spot... However, if you change your perspective, the worst can even be praised as the best! The unknown “bests” among the worst are uncovered in this program! Delivering the best of the worst from a positive point of view.
Hosted by the popular comedian duo of Down Town, around ten groups of guests gather in the studio for a fun talk show featuring different segments.
[Main segments]
● Star Recommendations- Buy and Go! Catalog
● Life in the Entertainment World- Shopaholic Grand Prix
● The Time I Shined
● A Loo...
A strict but loving Grandma solves a myriad of issues for the people around her!
Miki Doumeki lives in a small rural village surrounded by abundant nature and beautiful scenery. After becoming a widow at an early age, she’s spent many years working as a leader in her village. A handsome, intellig...
Kamiwaza: The Superhuman Skill Show
Kamiwaza: The Superhuman Skill Show follows a mixed group of both celebrity and civilian contestants as they attempt to complete unbelievably difficult challenges that have gone viral on social media or have been concocted by mischievously talented producers.
Contestants who complete each challeng...
Outsing the Choir! is a musical game show featuring two teams of contestants facing off in a singing showdown. Each contestant must sing their chosen song perfectly while not getting thrown off by a live, in-studio choir. While this may seem like any singer’s dream, it’s actually every singers’ nigh...
It begins as any other day with commuters and passengers catching the 8:23 train. That is, until one train car suddenly warps into a wormhole and lands in a devastated future world. Without smartphones or social media, the passengers must confront extraordinary and extreme conditions. Mere strangers...
The Last Man: The Blind Profiler
Hiromi Minami is a US FBI agent on temporary loan to Japan. He’s blind but dubbed “the last man" for his ability to crack tough cases with keen analysis and honed senses. Shintaro Godo is a field cop with a top arrest record who shuns his pedigree as police commissioner’s son. The two make for a hig...
TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room - THE MOVIE
The 70th floor of a Yokohama skyscraper is ablaze with 193 lives trapped inside. MER rolls into action determined to save everyone.
Winning “Best Asian Drama for a Regional/Int’l Market at ContentAsia Awards 2022” and “Best Actor for 4th Asia Contents Awards”, TV series “TOKYO MER: Mobile Emerge...
An unassuming country girl crosses paths with an extravagant drag queen, sparking the beginning of a life-changing Cinderella Story!
Sachi is a plain woman living in the quiet countryside with her conservative father. Though she enjoys designing and making clothes, she’s convinced she doesn’t hav...
"Groovy Sukiyaki" (Masayuki Izumi, published by FUSOSHA), a manga unit consisting of Masayuki Kusumi, known as the author of "Lonely Gourmet" and Harunori Izumi (author of "Shoku no Gunshi" and "Dandori-kun"), is a first-person manga with an analytical bombastic approach! Groovy Sukiyaki" (Masayuki ...
Sumire is a 26-year-old dress pattern maker who just got dumped by her boyfriend. She responds by joining a lingerie maker run by a female boss, Yuri. When Sumire is again smitten by a captivatingly young man, Soichi, he turns out to not only be a “himo,” a professional mooch, but the very guy who h...
'OMO UMA' Heartwarming Foodocumentary
There are outlandish restaurants all over Japan that are far beyond our imagination. This is a documentary program about human beings through food, which finds and introduces owners and services that over hospitality and over entertainment!
180 days of struggle by a female master brewer
Hiroshima is counted as one of Japan's three major sake breweries. However, the sake industry is in a predicament due to COVID-19 pandemic and a series of natural disasters. The long-established sake brewery in Higashi-Hiroshima, led by Miho Imada, a female toji (master brewer) who was selected as o...
15 female filmmakers, all born around 1990, contribute about 6 to 8 minutes each to this film showcasing their views of the world, society and gender issues.
There are those nights when your heart and stomach are simply too full.
Akira Ban, who’s known as Ban-san, drives on the streets of Osaka as a taxi driver. He encounters puzzled passengers with troubled lives and somehow ends up sitting with them at his favorite food spots in the city. A series of ...
Moco's Travel Kitchen Season 2
Mocomichi Hayami, also known as Moco in his fast-selling cookbooks, is a prominent actor starring in “This Guy is the Biggest Mistake of My Life” and many other top-ranked Japanese dramas. The friendly hunk is also a serious chef, winning the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards' Japanese cooking category...
It was 1598 when Toshiie Maeda,the first feudal lord of KAGA domain,arrived Kanazawa.
Since then,the Maeda clan ruled this land for14 generations and build a vast territory called HYAKUMANGOKU.
A historic city.A city with aesthetic sense inherited from the feudal era.
Numerous places where you ...
You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Hapless freshman Kazuya, reeling from a bad breakup, buys a few hours at the aquarium with the beautiful, polite girlfriend Chizuru.
Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, and to make matters worse, Chizuru is much more than the pretty fac...
In 10 days, a meteorite will fall to earth.
Masumi is a company employee with the worst life in the world.
He visits the university library of his alma mater to at least spend his remaining time peacefully.
Ritsu, a man whom Masumi ran into at the library by chance after 10 years.
He was...
This is a program that spares no time and effort in verifying old legends, urban legends, and overblown stories, and exposes them for what they really are!!!
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 ...
Sometimes, kids do better than adults. Take a look inside the 3rd grader’s brain, acted out by adults. This comedy series is about four elementary school students. They face simple but difficult problems even for adults and try to find their answers from kids' pure eyes.
Akari is a college student whose recent breakup has her afraid of taking on new relationships.
That is until love pays her an unexpected visit. She falls for Izumi who surprisingly is not only younger, but also happens to be the kid brother of her ex-boyfriend, Yamato. Akari feels drawn to Izumi f...
Hazama is a brilliant surgeon who runs a patisserie by day, creating cakes with the same ingenuity and dexterity he applies to surgery. But in his other life, he leads a secretive and powerful medical team willing to apply daring and unrivaled skills to any surgical challenge for an exorbitant fee. ...
Hana, a heroine, is a super excellent and beautiful business woman who works at a traditional confectionary company and every single her idea becomes a hit and popular series.
Thus, Hana is admired by all of her colleagues and they think that Hana dates celebrities like professional baseball playe...
Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto’s muse, ...
To celebrate the theatrical release, Ichikei’s Crow, starring Yutaka Takenouchi returns to screens for the first time in a year and a half in a brand new special drama!
Set in Kumamoto, one year after Michio Iruma was transferred out of “Ichikei”. Whilst Michio is busy vigorously conducting trial...
Marriage is Difficult for a Ninja
Hotaru Kusakari is a pharmacist who usually works at just an ordinary pharmacy. However contrary to her everyday appearance, she’s a descendant of the Koga Ninja clan, taking on the long tradition that has continued since the ancient times. She acts in a calm and reserved manner, but this is only he...