Ban-san's Heartfelt Dinner 

なにわの晩さん!~美味しい美味しい走り飯~

  • Food/Cooking

4 × 30’

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 heartfelt stories and alluring foods fulfil both the stomach and the soul.

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 heartfelt stories and alluring foods fulfil both the stomach and the soul.

Production Year

2023/02

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21st Century Girl

21世紀の女の子

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.

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

around 1/4

Omnibus Love Stories based on popular comics
~Different perspectives of 5 pals who spend time in the same place at the same time~
At the cafe bar “NONKI,” five pals who used to work as part-timers when they were students gather as usual. Each of them is now 25 years old, but when they meet at the ...

  • Family
  • Human
  • For Women

  • Family
  • Human
  • For Women

At Least On Sunday Night

日曜の夜ぐらいは・・・

Three Japan Academy Award winners co-starring‼

Old apartment complexes, rented houses in the suburbs, and cabs running empty through the city. There is nothing special to note about these ordinary scenes, which have been left behind by the times, have lost their liveliness, and are somewhat lonel...

  • Entertainment
  • Gameshow
  • Entertainment
  • Gameshow

Attack 25

パネルクイズ アタック25

One of the most famous quiz shows in Japan.
As a nationwide program, it has aired 1800 times and still continuously airing.
Are you smart enough to answer tough questions?
Or strategically wise to win? Then we challenge you!

  • Family
  • Entertainment

  • Family
  • Entertainment

Before After

大改造!!劇的ビフォーアフター

Dreaming of the perfect house for your family?
This is a house renovation show which will dramatically change the life of the chosen family.


A dramatic renovation show that changes family’s life!
Cramped kitchens, dangerous stairs, tiny bathrooms... Each “Takumi,” the master of renovation, tu...

  • Romance
  • School
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • School
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

Cinderella Again

青春シンデレラ

"Before you ask me out, fix your appearance first."

Shion, a 17-year-old high school girl who had her first love confession cut short by the merciless words of her first lover, has grown up to be a beauty salon employee with a sophisticated appearance and solid skills and is now living a fulfilli...

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

Color of Romance

ももいろ あんずいろ さくらいろ

Anzu and Yuka are colleagues and best friends. At a company BBQ party, Anzu drinks too much instead of Yuka who does not want to drink. And she notices a handsome guy staring at her.
The next day, she bumps into the guy again at work. To her surprise, he is a new employee, Tetsuya. He tries to appr...

  • Gameshow
  • Gameshow

DUB IT!

This show focuses on comedians and actors, and finds out the differences of their power of expression. Actors and comedians, in team of 3, compete on how good they can dub on muted videos.

Challengers first watch a short muted video and then they put their voice on it.

The videos span from a ...

  • Human
  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Tearjerker

  • Human
  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Tearjerker

Every Precious Moment

たとえあなたを忘れても

This is a love story between a woman who works as a piano instructor at a music school. She has lost her dream and is trying hard to make ends meet. The story also features a young man who has a disorder called "dissociative amnesia," which causes him to lose his memory. Despite his condition, he ma...

  • Adventure
  • Entertainment
  • Travelogue
  • Reality
  • Adventure
  • Entertainment
  • Travelogue
  • Reality

Far Away Neighbours

世界の村で発見!こんなところに日本人

Adventurous Places, Unbelievable Stories!
Is this a simple travel show? – NO!
A documentary show? – NO!
The format offers a mix of unimaginable adventure and human stories!
A traveler goes in search for their fellow countrymen in faraway places.

  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

GIRL XX  

●●ちゃん

Fumie is a single office worker in her twenties whose only purpose in life is to have sex. She spends her days looking forward to having sex with someone. In the morning, noon, and night, whether it's a regular person or someone new, male or female, it doesn't matter. Just like breathing in or drink...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Golden Spoon: Mama is the Best!!!

Every mother brings up her children with a lot of love.

Little and innocent 4 - 6 year-old kids are the judges here.

Every child would say ”Mama’s dish is the best!”

Mothers know their beloved kids’ favorite taste.

They have been brought up with homemade dishes by their mother.

Kids m...

  • Entertainment
  • Gameshow
  • Entertainment
  • Gameshow

Grab It! Hold It! Count It!

Four teams will be invited into the mansion of money and get the chance to win actual cash.
Hosting this big money giveaway will be a different celebrity guest– a mega-rich rock star, movie star or sports star – who has brought with them a number of incredible cash machines that will pump out genui...

  • Comedy
  • Romance

  • Comedy
  • Romance

I will rob your lover

あなたの恋人、強奪します

"Office CAT, a mysterious detective agency known only to women troubled by tangled relationships between men and women. This agency advertises suspiciously, stating, 'We will rob your lover, your friend's boyfriend, and give them to you.' They receive requests—' I want to break up' or 'I want them t...

  • Comedy
  • Idol
  • Drama (Series)

  • Comedy
  • Idol
  • Drama (Series)

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die.

推しが武道館行ってくれたら死ぬ

Eripiyo is an enthusiastic otaku girl who devotes her life to Maina, a member of a minor underground idol group, ‘ChamJam.’ Always dressed in a red tracksuit from high school, she puts all her money and time into Maina.
Wielding salmon pink penlights and shouting the name of her fave at the top ...

  • Entertainment

  • Entertainment

In the Middle of Nowhere ポツンと一軒家

There are dramatic stories in the middle of nowhere.

In various regions of Japan, mysterious isolated houses are found somehow hidden alarmingly far away from the nearby town. Who lives there? What made them se le themselves into such a way of life? Finding the clue just by a satellite photograph...

  • Family
  • Entertainment
  • Reality
  • Family
  • Entertainment
  • Reality

Kids Love Therapy

[TREASURE BOX JAPAN|mipformats 2016]
Do you still remember your very First Crush? Love at First Sight? First time Holding Hands? Or first time Asking Out on a Date?
Kids fall in love the same way as adults, but the difference is that when we get old, we forget about the past and keep moving forw...

  • Human
  • Romance
  • For Women

  • Human
  • Romance
  • For Women

Loveless Lovers

アイのない恋人達

This is a story about seven men and women who are in their twilight years. Despite their unusual views on love and family problems, they meet, connect and try to love each other. Unfortunately, they have no good memories of love and have experienced severe heartbreak in the past. For their own reaso...

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

Marry Me!

マリーミー!

  • Entertainment
  • Factual
  • Medical/Health
  • Entertainment
  • Factual
  • Medical/Health

Medical Check-up Horror Show

Welcome to Black Hospital!
You probably have heard of symptoms that can lead to a serious illness!
Every episode, a specific disease will be tackled. A video clip will be played showing a symptom a patient experiences that will frightened viewers.
Generally, the Health TV program doesn't entertai...

  • Comedy
  • Romance

  • Comedy
  • Romance

Miss Target

ミス・ターゲット

Sumire Asakura is a marriage scammer who has manipulated numerous men with her beauty and skilled techniques. Targeting men who make a fortune through nefarious deeds and escaping investigation due to their shady dealings, she operates as the ‘Miss Target,’ never missing her prey. She is a dark hero...

  • Food/Cooking

  • Food/Cooking

Moco's Travel Kitchen Season 2 

頂!キッチン Season2

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...

  • Travel
  • Travelogue
  • For Women
  • On-off drama

  • Travel
  • Travelogue
  • For Women
  • On-off drama

Moving to Kyoto

京都にお引越し

Toshiya, a graduate of an art college, is currently working in Osaka. One day, he decides to visit his cousin, Saki, who lives in Kyoto and runs an antique store. Toshiya couldn't help but feel a little envious of Saki's carefree lifestyle and her successful business. As he explores the nostalgic an...

  • Horror
  • Romance
  • Idol
  • Drama (Series)

  • Horror
  • Romance
  • Idol
  • Drama (Series)

My Fave is Mine

A popular comic book that has been the talk of the town on SNS
Unexpected live-action adaptation!
A shocking love story depicting the runaway love for a Fave.

College student Hinaki has a secret she can’t tell anyone.
She is madly in love with Subaru, a member of the famous streaming group “Co...

Othello

The small theater troupe "ENGINE" has its rehearsal hall in a dirty building near Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka.
The young members of the troupe, including its signature actress Mai Yamaguchi, are hard at work on their rehearsals, even sparing time for sleep, as the Tokyo performance is just around the...

Pampaka Pants パンパカパンツ

Traveling through the world to find ‘Nice Pants’!

Pampaka the piglet learns from his grandfather that his talent of collecting the best pants has a unique family history. So, joined with his trusty feline friend Punyan the cat, Pampaka searches for the world’s greatest pants, stretching from the ...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Picky Eater Saver

[TREASURE BOX JAPAN|miptv2015 Format]
This new show could end everybody’s bad eating habit!
A new cooking program which involves judges, that all of them has something in common. Which is “disliking a particular food”.
The selected chefs are challenged to use that food to create a new type of ...

  • Romance

  • Romance

Rent A Girlfriend 

レンタル彼女

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...

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

Seductive Nights

Three bittersweet love stories

It is an omnibus-style love story of three love-troubled women and a sweet, lustrous, popular guy who, once hooked, becomes hard to get away from.

This guy is Ohnuma and he works for a publisher in planning and advertising.

Beautifully, delicately and boldly d...

  • Romance
  • For Women

  • Romance
  • For Women

Sharehouse Cinderella

セレブ男子は手に負えません!

Hikaru Momose (Yumi Wakatsuki) lived in a modest apartment with her mother. Because of her mother's influence, she decided that her love life was based on marriage. However, the man she believed to be her first and last love is an international romance scam artist, leaving her with a debt of 8 milli...

  • Romance
  • For Women

  • Romance
  • For Women

Subscription Girls

サブスク彼女

A sensational love story about girls who can’t be someone’s special.

The main character, Tomo, for some reason, is only liked by men who have girlfriends. She is only asked out when it is convenient for the guys, but she can’t be their true love. She was tired of men who were indecisive and self-...

  • Comedy
  • Romance

  • Comedy
  • Romance

The 3Bs You Shouldn't Date

3Bの恋人

"You should never date the 3Bs”

This is common-sense for all the girls out there.

The 3B stands for a Beautician, a Bartender, and a Band member.

This is a love story between Haru, a girl who cannot trust men, and the 3Bs.

  • Family
  • Human
  • Mystery
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Family
  • Human
  • Mystery
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

The Birthday Mystery

何曜日に生まれたの

Is it a love story, a mystery, a human drama, or a social drama? The decision is yours.

Twenty-eight-year-old Sui Kurome is an almost stay-at-home housekeeper who lives with her manga artist father, Joji. Ten years had passed since she locked herself away in her room when Joji’s serialization of ...

The End of the World With You 

僕らのミクロな終末

A huge meteorite falls to the earth. There are only 10 days left until the earth's destruction.
Masumi Nishina, an office worker with nothing to live for, visits the university library of his alma mater to spend his remaining time quietly. There, he runs into Ritsu Kusakabe, a man who once hurt him...

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

The Princess Bodyguard's Love

18歳、新妻、不倫します。

A wealthy heiress, who had dreamt of love with her crush, is pressured into an arranged marriage by her parents after high school. In a bid to avoid it, she proposes a "marriage with infidelity as a premise" to her childhood bodyguard. Thus unfolds a wedding love story between the heiress and her do...

  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

The Red Apple 

“Based on the controversial work by Koji Murata, sold more than 200,000 copies in total!”
The human mind has always dwelled upon the hidden and forbidden…
20XX, Japan bans all sexual activities.
Hikaru is an honorary high school student with no sex experience.
One day he and his friends secretly...

  • Scripted Format
  • Action

  • Scripted Format
  • Action

The Sealer

封刃師

In this world, there exist demon swords. Those who have the sword will have their will taken over, and they will lust for human blood and keep on killing indiscriminately. The sealer is who searches for those blades that haunt people and seal them with his scabbard.

この世には、人の心に溜まった闇が作り出す“穢刃(けがれやいば...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Thief Chef

"Thief Chef" is an ultimate cooking TV show format about chef's skills and pride in a competition style.
The show supports a reputable chef who is the Thief Chef to be, to challenge his rival or mentor chef.
Thief Chef attempts to "steal" and reproduce the signature dish of the rival chef without ...

  • Comedy
  • Romance

  • Comedy
  • Romance

This Guy is The Biggest Mistake of My Life

この男は人生最大の過ちです

A handsome genius CEO fell in love with me… but he was just a pervert!?

A girl, who works at a pharmaceutical company, just lost her loving dog whom she spent many years together. She was depressed and drunk at the bar, cursing all the drugs that did not work for her dog. A man sitting next to he...

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

  • Romance
  • For Women
  • Drama (Series)

This is the way we like it

こういうのがいい

Genki Murata and Tomoka Eguchi were both tired and disillusioned from their previous relationships. They had no energy to start new romantic relationships until they met each other at a drinking party for an online game they both played. They hit it off and ended up going to a love hotel together. L...

  • Nature
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Food/Cooking

  • Nature
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Food/Cooking

Travel Salad 旅サラダ

Travel Salad delivers you the freshly discovered trip information throughout Japan and you are sure to find a place you want to visit! From the popular tourist sites to hot hidden spots where even the repeaters don’t know of, we will provide you with the best choices of travel information.


From...

  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Drama (Series)

Troubles All Abroad!

ひともんちゃくなら喜んで!

“A slapstick, funny, and heart-pounding office
reform love comedy for all working generations!”

Mamoru works at Off-White Inc. as a
publicist. She is trending on social media as “a
publicist so cute as an angel“ but in her heart
she feels empty. She dreams of working as
a top-notch Human-Rel...

  • Romance

  • Romance

We are Too Clumsy About Love

僕らは恋がヘタすぎる

4 young men and women find real themselves through friendship, jealousy, betrayal, conflict.
A love story for all those that are bad at love!


Hana and Mizuki are best friends since elementary school.
Hana was cheated on by her ex-boyfriend and decided to go on a trip with Mizuki to heal her ...

  • Family
  • For Women
  • Reality
  • Family
  • For Women
  • Reality

Welcome, Newlyweds! 

新婚さんいらっしゃい!

This is the reality talk show, started in 1971 and has run for over 40 years, making it one of the longest running shows In Japan.
Scheduled on Sundays as light comedy daytime programming, 2 newlywed couples talk about funny and sometimes embarrassing stories from their romances how they met and co...

  • Entertainment

  • Entertainment

Who Is The Real Celebrity

芸能人格付けチェック

The celebrity must have the knowledge of a first class lifestyle.

The show has run successfully for more than 10 years in Japan!
The concept of this show is that the celebrity MUST HAVE knowledge of a first class lifestyle. Can you recognize the difference between a €10,000 wine and a cheap wine...

  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking
  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking

Wizard Chef -Ultimate Cooking Makeover-

This is not only a food show! It’s the battle of the Wizard Chefs’ Magic.
With just simple rules, the Wizards are challenged to makeover ordinary food into unbelievable fantastic dishes. When you finish watching the show, you will be blown off your feet and be fascinated of what they recreate. Only...