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Three Star Bai in Nishi Ogikubo
西荻洼三星洋酒堂
니시오기쿠보 셋별 양주집
Once again today, with good cocktails and canned food, the three men give encouragement and a gentle push on the back to those who are experiencing some hardship. Young, old, male, female… In life, there is always some kind of issue. But in talking to people close to you, sometimes you worry them,...
Captivated, by You
我热衷于你
빠졌어, 너에게
The silly and asinine daily lives of high school boys thoughtfully portrayed. It’s a detailed view of boys who go to a school that combines junior high and high school – a fleeting surreal page of youth. When you read, “I’m crazy, about you,” the slackness of the main characters comes through in a ...
Deliveries from the Heart - True stories from Mercari
缘分速递 - 发生在二手交易平台Mercari交易里的真实故事～
그 인연 배달합니다 - 메루카리에서 일어난 진실의 이야기
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...
Danger-Less Detectives
不危险刑侦
우리는 위험하지 않아
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 ...
NAOKI HANZAWA
半沢直樹
한자와 나오키
Naoki Hanzawa is a banker at the Tokyo Central Bank. Despite his having exposed many injustices inside the bank, the story begins with his being sent off to a subsidiary company, Tokyo Central Securities. Hanzawa commands a band of workers who are part of the so-called “lost generation.” Together, t...
The Natural Lifestyle Special
「新潟一番自然派スペシャル・遠藤師匠とやすし君。自然派流アウトドア」
This is a show for outdoor lovers! The popular section “The Natural Lifestyle” that is being broadcast on Niigata's information program “Evening Wide Niigata Ichiban” has been made into a series. Introducing seasonal trekking, apprentices who live with nature, apprenticeships, rice planting, ...
BG
BG～身辺警護人～
Bodyguards who protect people unarmed. An intense drama where the thoughts and emotions of people interweave. A bodyguard in a civilian security company, Akira Shimazaki, had quit his job due to one incident in the past and was working as a guard for a construction site for a while. He starts wor...
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...
Ｍ -beloved one-
Ｍ 愛すべき人がいて
A story of how a top diva in Japan, Ayumi Hamasaki, was born, her meeting and partings. This is the first dramatization of the much-talked-about original book with adaptations specific to the drama. In Japan, in the 1990s, Ayumi Hamasaki was called Ayu and had become a superstar known throughout ...
On nights when I want to end it all...
只在想死的夜晚
죽고 싶은 밤에 한하여
“You look like the back side of a bug when you smile. Like the back side of a drone beetle.” As a young boy, a girl he adored told him that. And ever since that day, he had a hard time smiling. The original story is based on the real-life experience of author, Kirio Tsume. The main character, Hirosh...
Family Bond
太陽の家
Kawasaki is a master carpenter who has a consummate skill. He looks scary but he is full of human warmth and has a weakness for women. Living with his wife and a daughter happily and as usual, he works hard, the sales woman of an insurance company passes by his work place . In fact, she is a single ...
his
Two boys met and fell in love with each other in their high school days. It has been 13 years since they first met… The two live in different places. Nagisa has left for Australia after breaking up with Shun. Nagisa got married with a woman and has a child, but they have difficulties to conti...
Off the Record
知らなくていいコト
The ultimate scoop turned out to be about me! People go to weekly tabloid "East" for the latest scoop on corrupt politicians and celebrity scandals. Things are going quite well for reporter Kate Makabe on the career and romance fronts. She chases scoops every day and toughs it out in her cutthr...
PRAYERS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
病室で念仏を唱えないでください
병실에서 염불을 외지 마세요
Shoen Matsumoto is both a trained paramedic and Buddhist monk attached to a hospital. While providing emergency care straight from the mortuary while still in monk clothes unnerves some patients, Shoen nevertheless proves fully devoted to saving lives, and if that’s not possible, performing rites of...
SEDAI WARS
世代争霸
세대전쟁
Japan in the not-too-distant future. As generations change, among the people, discontent is at an all-time high and society no longer functions well. The economy has declined and is heading toward collapse... Postwar, Baby Boomers, Bubble, Lost Generation, Yutori, Millennials... Each generation...
The Last Train Bound for Nagoya 2020
名古屋行き最終列車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 Matsu...
The ship of Theseus
テセウスの船
테세우스의 배
A serial murder by fatal poisoning ushers in the first year of the new Japanese Reiwa era. Arrested as the prime suspect is a police officer. His son, Kokoro Tamura, along with his mother, elder sister and brother are forced into a life of social ostracism and prejudice as the alleged family of a ki...
Homeroom
班会
홈룸
Ranked number one overall by many e-bookstores! The school psycho/love comedy, “Homeroom” Yuki Yamada, who is currently starring in two productions, takes on the role of the perverted stalker teacher! At the same time, Yuki Yamada stars in the drama, “Sedai Wars.” Since serialization began on Kod...
HOTEL ROYAL
This film is based on a Shino Sakuragi’s master novel “Hotel Royal” which won the 149th Naoki Novel Prize. Masayo is the only daughter of a family who owns Hotel Royal, a love hotel in Hokkaido, overlooking the Kushiro Marshland. Failing her entrance exam for art school, she reluctantly starts to ...
The Master Plan
名も無き世界のエンドロール
複雑な家庭環境で育ち、淋しさを抱えて生きてきたキダとマコトは幼なじみ。そこに同じ境遇の転校生・ヨッチも加わり、3人は支え合いながら家族よりも大切な仲間となった。しかし20歳の時に、ヨッチが2人の前からいなくなってしまう。そんな2人の元に、政治家令嬢で、芸能界で活躍するトップモデルのリサが現れる。住む世界の違うリサに異常な興味を持ったマコトは、食事に誘うが、全く相手にされない。キダは「住む世界が違うから諦めろ」と忠告するが、マコトは仕事を辞めて忽然と姿を消してしまう。 2年後。マコトを捜すために裏社会にまで潜り込んだキダは、ようやく再会を果たす。マコトは、リサにふさわしい男になるために、死に物...
Udo-chan’s Trip SP 2020
ウドちゃんの旅してゴメン 新春SP 2020
The regular popular program “Udo-chan’s Trip” has been aired for 17 years. And the special series has been aired for 10 years. Udo-chan travels to Mikawa Bay in Aichi prefecture. During his trip, he is with a talented actor, Ryuta Sato and an idol, Ami Inamura known as “God swing pitch” during the ...
Village Vanguard Strikes Back (Tentative)
リトル・サブカル・ウォーズ～ヴィレヴァン！の逆襲～
There are unique bookstores, called “VILLAGE VANGUARD”, it’s unlike any other in the world. Keizo is a college student, who calls himself “empty” has been spending an exciting (stimulating) days with a mixture of junk and eccentric people at the bookstore “VILLAGE VANGUARD” where he works as a pa...
The Sonata of Atonement - The Lawyer in Hell
悪魔の弁護人 御子柴礼司 ～贖罪の奏鳴曲～
Corruption, outrageous fees, and absolute victory in the courtroom. The devil’s courtroom drama begins now. Laid off from her temp job, Yoko Kusakabe is now unemployed. She’s introduced to a clerical position through a public employment agency, so she arrives at the doorstep of a law firm for h...
Sketches of Life
いのちスケッチ
Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his dream. It was a part-time job at the local life extension zoo that introduced Ryota, who was in the old friend's room, without relying on his parents' home....
La Grande Maison Tokyo
グランメゾン東京
그랑 메종 도쿄
Natsuki Obana is a charismatic Japanese chef running a 2-star restaurant in Paris. Despite an extreme pride and confidence, he can’t seem to earn the 3 stars he covets. Feeling the pressure of a career slipping away, Obana’s troubles are compounded when his restaurant is caught in a scandal that for...
marigold in 4 minutes
4分間のマリーゴールド
4분간의 메리골드
Mikoto Hanamaki is a paramedic with a special psychic ability: he can see the moment at which a person’s life ends. But the talent is a curse because despite his best efforts, he can’t seem to change that fate. Living with his sister-in-law, Sara, in an exceedingly pure yet somewhat taboo romance, M...
The Hikita’s Are Expecting!
ヒキタさん！ご懐妊ですよ
This is a story about a married couple, ”Mr. & Mrs. Hikita” who have been having difficulty with fertility treatments for several years. The couple had enjoyed their life like an adventure, so they have never thought about having a baby (like an ordinary life). One day, the young wife just said, ...
The Real Thing
本気のしるし
Kuzumichi Tsuji is a “Good man” who has a good reputation for his work. He has casual relations with two women in his workplace, however, he feels kind of bore for dull days without excitement. He has never fallen in love with someone from the bottom of his heart. One day, he meets a mysterious ...
You, Me and Bach
G線上のあなたと私
G선상의 당신과 나
Yaeko Kogure’s marriage engagement is broken off by her fiancé just as she resigns from her job amid congratulations. Standing stunned in a shopping mall, she hears Bach’s “Air on the G String” playing nearby, and it moves her to overcome her setback by taking up the violin. She joins a class with a...
Franz Kafka in Tokyo
卡夫卡的东京绝望日记
카프카의 도쿄 절망 일기
Franz Kafka Powerless in every way and moreover, in the most perfect way. Franz Kafka, the great novelist widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. Yet given this stature, we find his life itself was more absurd than what was depicted in his novels. Few people know th...
Made in Hiroshima Spearheading Innovation
メイドインヒロシマＳＰ 超域オンリーワン
Neuroscientist Kenichiro Mogi uses his unique perspective to uncover the appeal of industries unique to Hiroshima Prefecture. What is their secret to fostering innovation? In the town of Saka in the Aki District, The DaikyoNishikawa Corporation is using tree resin to revolutionize plastic technolog...
The Cliff －A Man's Judgement－
それぞれの断崖
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...
Beshari-Gurashi
べしゃり暮らし
An entertainment drama about high school students who devote themselves to making people laugh. Keisuke is a “King of Laughter at School,” who simply loves to make people laugh. One day, Jun, who used to be a young professional entertainer, enters his school and becomes his classmate. Keisuke ...
No Side Manager
ノーサイト・ゲーム
노사이드 게임
Adapted from a novel by Jun Ikeido, the story follows the travails of a company man once touted as an elite executive candidate who falters when he voices opposition to his superiors over an acquisition, and is exiled to general affairs manager at a branch factory. Adding insult to injury, he is als...
Almost a Miracle
町田くんの世界
A new type of main character, who is both extremely ordinary and universally lovable. Machida is unlike any protagonist you've seen before. He's dull, he wears glasses, and he has no distinguishing features. His only talent is his ability to love everyone, unconditionally. However, as he gets to...
NISHIKIGOI
錦鯉の古里
Yamakoshi, this is the place where nishikigoi originally came from. This is a documentary of Koi farmers in Yamakoshi. The rice paddies overflow with water from the freshly melted snow, as do the wild ponds in which nishikigoi are raised. The hills and valleys overflow with water and greenery. ...