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  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Parades (2024) (2024)

    The Parades (2024)
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, Friendship, Tearjerker
    Country:
    Japanese

    A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.

    (Source: Netflix)

    Duration: 2 hr. 12 min.

  • Ep 11 RAW

    Innai Keisatsu (2024) (2024)

    Innai Keisatsu (2024)
    Genre:
    Detective, Investigation, Manga, Mystery
    Country:
    Japanese

    Adapted from the manga series "Innai Keisatsu: Asclepius no Hebi" (院内警察~アスクレピオスの蛇~) written by Sakai Tsutomu (酒井義) and illustrated by Hayashi Ichi (林いち).

    Episodes: 10

    Duration: 58 min.

    Episodes: 10

  • Ep 4 SUB

    Draft King (2023) (2023)

    Draft King (2023)
    Genre:
    Comedy, life, Manga, Miniseries, Sports
    Country:
    Japanese

    Gohara Aura, a scout for the Yokohama Bay Golds, is caustic and self righteous but generally regarded as a hotshot. He flies around the country in search of hidden talent to pick the Draft King – the no. 1 among the players chosen for this year’s draft. Kamiki Ryosuke, a former professional player who is now a rookie scout, and the members of the scout division led by the empathetic Shimobe Rikuo engage in a heated discussion with Gohara in their effort to strengthen the team. Gohara’s arch-enemy Busujima Ryuji, a veteran scout for the Osaka White Tigers who would do anything to accomplish his goals, is also fired up to secure talented players and makes a secret move. Can Gohara and his colleagues find a diamond in the rough and pick the Draft King?

    Adapted from the manga series "Draft King" (ドラフトキング) by Kuromatsu Tetsuro (クロマツテツロウ).

  • Ep 10 SUB

    Game of Spy (2022) (2022)

    Game of Spy (2022)
    Genre:
    Action, Drama, Suspense, Thriller, Web Series
    Country:
    Japanese
    Hashiba Takeru is the leader of Global Operation Service (GOS), a secret spy organisation housed within the Public Security Investigation Bureau which is tasked with eradicating criminals who are targeting Japan for various reasons.
  • Ep 9 SUB

    Atom no Ko (2022) (2022)

    Atom no Ko (2022)
    Genre:
    Business, Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    Azumi Nayuta is a young prodigy game developer who produces games privately under the name "John Doe" without any link with major company or distributor. Nayuta is often known as the "Banksy of the game industry" as no one knew his true identity, but an incident led him to leave game development. However, the story begins when "Atom", a long-established toy manufacturer that is on the verge of going out of business, begins to search for him in order to rebuild its business.
  • Ep 6 SUB

    Shinbun Kisha (2022) (2022)

    Shinbun Kisha (2022)
    Genre:
    Corruption, Drama, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese
    Matsuda Anna is a dedicated journalist who doggedly pursues the truth about a government corruption scandal even as powerful enemies seek to neutralize her reporting.
  • Ep 120 SUB

    Okaeri Mone (2021) (2021)

    Okaeri Mone (2021)
    Genre:
    Drama, life, Trauma
    Country:
    Japanese
    Momone Nagaura lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome. She fails to enter a university. While she tries to figure out what to do with her life, she begins to work as an apprentice of a forest guide. A turning point in her life occurs. A popular weather forecaster from Tokyo arrives. Momone Nagaura walks on a mountain with the weather forecaster. She hears from the weather forecaster that the weather forecaster can predict the future. Momone Nagaura becomes touched by that comment and decides to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard for the exam to become a weather forecaster. With the help of the people around her in Tome, she finally passes the exam. Momone Nagaura moves to Tokyo and begins to work at a private weather forecasting company. Working there, she grows up as a weather forecaster. Several years later, in 2019, a major typhoon approaches Japan. To help her hometown, she heads to Kesennuma Bay.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Stardust Over The Town (2020) (2020)

    Stardust Over The Town (2020)
    Genre:
    Drama, Music
    Country:
    Japanese
    “Osamu Yamada and Hello Nights”, a band headed by a former employee of major record label Osamu Yamada, followed by drinking buddies Toshiki, Akira, and Goro as the chorus, and a singer who is not popular at all Shingo as the lead vocal. Kazuo, who took over the debt on the band, later joins as the member. After ten years, the band does not still have a hit and has been barely surviving, making tours in provincial areas with a veteran singer, Kitty Iwaki. One day the band is invited for a performance at a small town in a province where Osamu was born. Eiji, a younger brother of Osamu, does not feel comfortable on his return. Ai, a friend of Eiji’s son, helps her mother to run a bar, dreaming of being a singer someday. She runs after a member telling that she wants to join the band…
  • Ep 7 SUB

    Ai Naki Mori de Sakebe (2020) (2020)

    Ai Naki Mori de Sakebe (2020)
    Genre:
    Based on True Story, BL, Investigation, Miniseries, Murder, Mystery, Psychological, Serial Killer
    Country:
    Japanese

    Murata Jo is a ruthless criminal. On the surface, he is cheerful and lively. But he emotionally controls other people, milks them for money, and makes them commit brutal crimes.

    Based on a real criminal case, named Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident, taking place between 1996 and 1998, and the main culprit of it, Futoshi Matsunaga.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    It Stopped Raining (2020) (2020)

    It Stopped Raining (2020)
    Genre:
    Amnesia, Business, Coma, Drama, Food
    Country:
    Japanese

    Yukisuke, a young, leggy bio-archeologist, gets to know Koyomi, a young land, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk together and often hang out, but Koyomi gets in a car accident and is hospitalized. In a coma for days, she finally regains consciousness but suffers from temporary amnesia. Yukisuke tries to stay closest to her as before, but her past memories give him a hard time.

    Adapted from the novel "Shizukana Ame" by Natsu Miyashita.

  • Ep 8 SUB

    Distorted Ripples (2019) (2019)

    Distorted Ripples (2019)
    Genre:
    Drama, Novel, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese
    Sawamura Masahiko is a reporter with a local newspaper, Shin Kanagawa Nippo. One day, he gets an scoop on a hit-and-run case. Morimoto Atsukoa, the grieving wife of the man who died, is reportedly the culprit. Masahiko is excited by this scoop which is the first he has had in a long while. However, it is false information planted by his colleague Kirino Hiroshi. Masahiko’s university schoolmate Mitazono, who is now the chief editor of an online news website, points this out. Masahiko pursues Kirino who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Oga Masakazu, a former journalist of a national newspaper and a old friend of Masahiko’s father Ippei, visits Masahiko. Oga has started investigating whether the suicide of a former colleague Kakiuchi Tomonari was due to an incorrect story that Kakiuchi published 15 years ago.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Death Hall (Shiyakusho) (2019)

    Death Hall (Shiyakusho)
    Genre:
    Drama, Fantasy
    Country:
    Japanese
    People who just died first visit the death office. There, the final destinations of the deceased, who died for various reasons including suicide, murder and disease, are decided. Shimura (Masahiro Matsuoka) works at the death office.
  • Ep 7 RAW

    Black School Rules (2019) (2019)

    Black School Rules (2019)
    Genre:
    Friendship, Romance, School, Youth
    Country:
    Japanese
    The first youth story of Sato and Satoshi Takahashi. The original story of the movie of the same name released on Friday, November 1, 2019 will be developed in the same work as Hulu. At a high school, Soraku (Sato) has a class-like presence, and Nakaya (Takahashi) is a tune. Two people who are opposite to each other draw a figure to confront the “black school rules” of high school that respects discipline.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Forest of Love (2019)

    The Forest of Love
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    Murata Jo is a ruthless criminal. On the surface, he is cheerful and lively. But he emotionally controls other people, milks them for money and makes them commit brutal crimes.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Blue Hour (2019) (2019)

    Blue Hour (2019)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama, Family
    Country:
    Japanese
    Takahata Isao’s animated artistry in Only Yesterday (1991) comes to life in Hakota Yuko’s delicate story of a woman’s mnemonic journey. Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    This is Not a Business Expense! (2019)

    This is Not a Business Expense!
    Genre:
    Comedy, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese
    The story revolves around the daily life of Sana Morikawa, a 30-year-old single woman who works in the finance department of a soap maker.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Emergency Interrogation Room 3 (Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu 3) (2019)

    Emergency Interrogation Room 3 (Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu 3)
    Genre:
    Detective, Drama, Investigation, Mystery
    Country:
    Japanese

    A few months before a law is enacted that requires the recording of all police interrogations, police officers gather at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and they receive instruction on how to treat suspects better. They observe, Yukiko Makabe (Yuki Amami) from the special interrogation team Kintori interrogate a suspect who does not show any signs of remorse. Yukiko Makabe uses sharp words and shows a lack of respect towards the suspect. Due to her behavior, Councilor Reiko Kikuchi orders Yukiko Makabe to train newcomers.

    Around this time, Yuta Nomoto, who received a 12 year sentence, escapes while being transferred to prison. He breaks into a house and takes a housewife as a hostage.

  • Ep 2 RAW

    Meitantei Akechi Kogoro SP (2019)

    Meitantei Akechi Kogoro SP
    Genre:
    Detective, Investigation, Mystery, Suspense
    Country:
    Japanese
    Dangerous hacker group “Phantom 20” is known internationally. They begin an attack on Hikari Bank in Japan. Kenjiro Namikoshi is the chief of the criminal investigation section at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He leads the investigation into the group. Kenjiro Namikoshi thinks of Kogoro Akechi who holds vast knowledge on hacking and leads BD team hacker group. To ask him for advisor help on the investigation, Kenjiro Namikoshi sends Yoshio Kobayashi.
  • Ep 3 RAW

    This Comic is Amazing (Kono manga ga sugoi!) (2018)

    This Comic is Amazing (Kono manga ga sugoi!)
    Genre:
    Documentary, Manga
    Country:
    Japanese

    This work is a documentary drama that recorded the process until different gorgeous guest actors realize manga each time.

    Guest actors talk about their favorite manga and illustrate what kind of approach the actors will approach to making actors to actually play the cartoon characters.

    Also, the program challenges the live-action in a special way that an actor enters comic strips.

  • Ep 5 SUB

    Shinhannin (Japanese Drama) (2018) (2018)

    Shinhannin (Japanese Drama) (2018)
    Genre:
    Crime, Investigation, Mystery, Suspense
    Country:
    Japanese
    The murder of Sudo Isao, a used car dealer, occurs in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2008. Detective Kusaka Satoru of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s Susuno Precinct, checks his background. He learns that Sudo’s young son Obata Mamoru from a previous marriage, died in a kidnapping incident in Shizuoka in 1974. In 1988, with just one year before the statute of limitation on the kidnapping case ran out, a special investigation unit was formed under the instructions of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s police chief Hashibami Yasuhide. Shigeto Seiichiro, who rose to the rank of superintendent despite being a non-career officer, became the director and led a group of six capable detectives in the re-investigation. Kusaka cannot comprehend why Sudo, who lived in Tokyo more than 20 years after the death of his son, was murdered in Shizuoka Prefecture. He instinctively knows that delving into the kidnap and murder of the child will shed light on the case. Kusaka visits Shigeto who has left the police for a long time and searches for clues. He makes contact with Mamoru’s mother Saeko and her older sister Rie, and gradually draws near the real culprit.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Gakeppuchi Hotel! (Hotel on the Brink) (2018)

    Gakeppuchi Hotel! (Hotel on the Brink)
    Genre:
    Business, Comedy, Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    A once exclusive hotel in the outskirts well-known to only people in the know, is now on the brink of bankruptcy with a debt of 300 million yen, under the management of incapable and unmotivated staff. The diligent, rookie general manager Sakuri Sana is too young, the new patissier Hourai Haru cannot read situations, the sous chef Eguchi Ryuji is obsessed with boat racing, the cleaner Yoshimura Naomi is an amenities thief, the bartender Edakawa Kozue is always drunk and the assistant general manager Tokisada Masao is suspected of embezzlement. Then an unlikely young man Ukai Naoya shows up as a mysterious guest, and the staff who only have an abundance of pride, regard him disagreeably. No one knows just yet that his arrival will overturn everything about this hotel...
  • Ep 10 SUB

    The Confidence Man JP (2018)

    The Confidence Man JP
    Genre:
    Action, Comedy, Crime, Friendship
    Country:
    Japanese

    Dako is a con woman. She stays at a suite in a luxury hotel and schemes to take money from vicious wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard. Boku-chan is a sincere and timid young con man. Richard is a veteran con man.

    Dako is able to master knowledge from various professions in a short period of time and disguises herself as someone working in that field. Along with Boku-chan and Richard, they carry their plans using fantastic teamwork.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Bastard and the Beautiful World (2018) (2018)

    The Bastard and the Beautiful World (2018)
    Genre:
    Action, Fantasy, Musical
    Country:
    Japanese
    The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. (1) Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. (2) A mysterious relationship between a little girl, Utagui, who eats songs to live, and an artist who can't sing anymore. (3) A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. They finally reached a beach in Okinawa and find...? (4) Bastards comes together on a night dance floor for a show.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Last Winter, We Parted (2018) (2018)

    Last Winter, We Parted (2018)
    Genre:
    Drama, melodrama, Mystery, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese

    Kyosuke Yakumo works as a reportage writer. His fiance is Yuriko Matsuda and they will marry soon. For his next book, Kyosuke Yakumo begins research on a burned to death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman. The suspect in the case is photographer Zakayudai Kihara.

    Based on the novel "Kyonen no Fuyu, Kimi to Wakare" by Fuminori Nakamura.

  • Ep 2 RAW

    Fumiko's Feet (2018) (2018)

    Fumiko's Feet (2018)
    Genre:
    Drama, Mature, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese

    Tsukakoshi is an old man. His mistress is Geisha Fumiko and he is fascinated by her beautiful feet. He requests Unokichi to paint a picture of Fumiko as a model. Second film in a 3 part project titled "Tanizaki Tribute".

    Adapted from the novel "Fumiko no Ashi" by Tanizaki Junichiro.

  • Ep 7 SUB

    Chase (2017) (2018)

    Chase (2017)
    Genre:
    Detective, Investigation, Miniseries, Murder, Mystery, Serial Killer
    Country:
    Japanese
    Mikami, a journalist, and Mai, a rookie assistant director of a satellite broadcasting station, close in on the truth of the unsolved serial murders of five little girls which took place 27 years ago. At the time of the murders, DNA analysis dealt a decisive blow and a man was apprehended as the murderer. But there were several contradictory points surrounding this arrest. Mikami and Mai begin re-investigating the cases with doubts about his culpability. They are eventually faced with the chilling truth of false charges and enormous state power. However, they begin to expose the truth which was shrouded in darkness through true journalism.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Ah, Wilderness: Part 2 (2017) (2017)

    Ah, Wilderness: Part 2 (2017)
    Genre:
    Friendship, Novel, Sports
    Country:
    Japanese

    Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

    Based on the novel "Aa, Koya" by Shuji Terayama.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Ah, Wilderness (2017)

    Ah, Wilderness
    Genre:
    Friendship, Sports
    Country:
    Japanese

    The year is 2021 and years of mismanagement have left Japan a broken society riddled with poverty and underemployment. Kenji is visibly disabled and has an inferiority complex. Shinji is released from prison and has time in his hands. They both coincidentally sign up at a club for boxing and soon become friends.

    Based on the novel "Aa, Koya" by Shuji Terayama.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Mumon -The Land of Stealth 2017 (2017)

    Mumon -The Land of Stealth 2017
    Genre:
    Action, Historical, Tragedy, War
    Country:
    Japanese
    It is a warring period in feudal Japan. The warlord, Oda Nobunaga, is rapidly vanquishing his foes on a quest to pacify and unify the country under his rule. However, there is one domain that he forbids to lay a hand on, that of the Iga ninja, whom even the great Nobunaga fears most. The Iga are known to wield extraordinary and supernatural powers as invincible weapons of war who will assassinate anyone for money, and money only. They don’t think of people as human and are dubbed “the killer clan”. But there is one Iga ninja, Mumon, who while peerless inability is indolent and taken to task for an inability to earn much of an income. In the fall of the year Tensho 7, Nobunaga’s second son, Oda Nobukatsu, decides to ignore his father’s orders and attack the Iga country, partly encouraged by Taizen Heki, a man who had once turned on his master and was now employed as a vassal of Nobukatsu. Shimoyama Heibe, whose brother had been killed by Mumon also seeks revenge on the 12 Iga ninja core, including Momoji Sandayu and Shimoyama Kai. Amid various colliding interests and schemes, ultimately, a major bloody showdown is coming between Oda’s army and the Iga ninja.
  • Ep 50 SUB

    Onna Joshu Naotora (2017)

    Onna Joshu Naotora
    Genre:
    Historical, Romance, War
    Country:
    Japanese
    During the Sengoku period, the Ii family governs the Totomi region. Due to many past wars, there are no more male successors left to become a lord. Naotora Ii (Kou Shibasaki), the only daughter of the lord, now becomes a lord. She faces a difficult period. The constant love from her fiance, whom she became engaged with at a young age, helps her to keep moving forward.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

    Kabei: Our Mother
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and...
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Yutori Desu ga Nani ka (2016)

    Yutori Desu ga Nani ka
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama, Family, Friendship
    Country:
    Japanese

    Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love and friendship. The men are from the Yutori generation when the Japanese government reformed the education system emphasizing a pressure-free environment referred to as Yutori education.

    Since Masakazu’s (Masaki Okada) father passed away, he lives with his mother, older brother, older brother’s wife and younger sister. He studied hard in his school days and began working for a good company after college. He has worked in different divisions. This spring he is assigned to a bar franchise his company owns.

    Kazutoyo (Tori Matsuzaka) is a elementary school homeroom teacher. His teaching style, derived from his own Yutori education, draws the ire of the school and parents. He is connected with a female university student who arrives at the school for teaching apprenticeship.

    Maribu (Yuya Yagira) was born from an elite family. In his school days, he did well in his studies and sports. He applied for admission to Tokyo University, but was denied. 10 years later, he is now married and has a baby. His family still lives in a small place. Even though he is in a difficult financial situation, he is still trying to gain admission into Tokyo University.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Lowlife Love (2016) (2016)

    Lowlife Love (2016)
    Genre:
    Drama, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese
    Tetsuo is an indie filmmaker with a minor hit many years back. He leeches off of family and friends to make ends meet. One day, Tetsuo comes across a promising actress and a guy with an interesting screenplay.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Something Like, Something Like It (2016) (2016)

    Something Like, Something Like It (2016)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese
    Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
  • Ep 9 SUB

    Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu (2015)

    Kinkyuu Torishirabeshitsu
    Genre:
    Drama, police
    Country:
    Japanese
    Makabe Yukiko worked her way up from a rookie officer to her current investigator level. Recently, she had just been transferred to the "Emergency Interrogation Department", nicknamed as Kintori. Her colleagues are all men, and each of them have their own idiosyncrasies. Their job is to get the information from the suspects, and try to psycho-analyse them at the same time. Yukiko herself has an unsolved cold case that she is secretly investigating still... - TV Asahi
  • Ep 7 SUB

    Dokonjo Gaeru (2015)

    Dokonjo Gaeru
    Genre:
    Fantasy
    Country:
    Japanese
    Hiroshi (Kenichi Matsuyama) is now 30-years-old and lethargic, but Pyonkichi, the frog imprinted on his shirt, is always energetic. Sometimes Hiroshi does not wear t-shirts with Pyonkichi, but Pyonkichi always encourages Hiroshi.
  • Ep 10 RAW

    Dokonjo Gaeru (2015)

    Dokonjo Gaeru
    Genre:
    Fantasy
    Country:
    Japanese
    Hiroshi (Kenichi Matsuyama) is now 30-years-old and lethargic, but Pyonkichi, the frog imprinted on his shirt, is always energetic. Sometimes Hiroshi does not wear t-shirts with Pyonkichi, but Pyonkichi always encourages Hiroshi.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Kakekomi (2015) (2015)

    Kakekomi (2015)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama, Historical, Novel, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese

    The story is set in the late Edo period when the divorce rate was two times higher than the present.

    In the feudal Japanese society, men could easily divorce their wives whereas wives had great difficulty to exercise the same act. Many women found solace at a women’s Buddhist temple in Kamakura named Tokei-ji, where, after two years of servitude, their husbands were forced to sign divorce papers. The three inns located in the area beneath the temple functioned as the front offices, with Tokei-ji accepting only women who have been approved by them first.

    The year is 1841. Tokugawa Shogunate has issued sumptuary regulations as part of Tempo reforms, making the lives of common people even worse. Nakamura Shinjiro is a literary writer and doctor-in-training, residing in Edo. In light of the recent events, Shinjiro escaped to an inn at Tokei-ji temple which is run by his aunt, Kashiwaya Genbei.

    Jogo is aiming for Tokei-ji in search of a divorce from her abusive husband who is exploiting her for the family business. Ogin is a former courtesan who has abandoned the love of her life, a wealthy merchant, for some unknown reasons. The two women come across in their journey to Tokei-ji. There, Jogo and Ogin meet Shinjiro, his aunt and the others who are trying to help the women with various ideas to start a new life.

  • Ep 1 RAW

    Pikanchi Double Life is Hard Therefore Happy (2004)

    Pikanchi Double Life is Hard Therefore Happy
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    The sequel picks up three years after the events of the first episode. This time the energetic group gets caught up with a fight.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Tokyo Tribe 2014 (2014)

    Tokyo Tribe 2014
    Genre:
    Action
    Country:
    Japanese
    Set sometime in the future. Five years has passed since the Shibuya riots. There are now several tribes that exits in Tokyo. Boys makeup tribes and they occupy areas under their influence. Kai Deguchi is a member of the tribe Musashino Saru led by Tera. One day, a member of Musashino Saru is killed by rival tribe Bukuro Wu-RONZ led by Mera. Kai and Mera are former best friends, but not anymore. Meanwhile, Tera, the leader of Musashino Saru and a moderate who forbids using violence, is killed by Mera from Bukuro Wu-RONZ. Musashino Saru is now divided by two sides: one advocates following their slain leader's non-violence idealogy and the other side who wants to use violence to exact revenge. A riot soon ensues among the tribes. 1. Based on manga series "Tokyo Tribe2" by Santa Inoue (published in fashion magazine boon from 1997-2005).
  • Ep 8 SUB

    Dakara Koya (2015)

    Dakara Koya
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, life
    Country:
    Japanese

    Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth.

    Based on the novel "Dakara Kōya" by Kirino Natsuo.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Suzuki Sensei (movie) (2013)

    Suzuki Sensei (movie)
    Genre:
    Drama, School
    Country:
    Japanese

    Teacher Akira Suzuki (Hiroki Hasegawa) breaks away from long held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method".

    The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man (Shunsuke Kazama) then takes a female student hostage ...

    1. Based on Kenzi Taketomi's manga series "Suzuki Sensei" (first published June 7, 2005 by Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine).

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Kiri no Hata (2014) (2014)

    Kiri no Hata (2014)
    Genre:
    Investigation, Mystery, Novel, Revenge
    Country:
    Japanese
    Yanagida Kiriko (Horikita Maki) works at a food processing factory in Kita Kyushu as she lives a modest life with her intellectually disabled younger brother, Masao (Furuhata Niino). When work at the factory ends, she declines invitations from her colleagues, and waits for half-price at the supermarket so that she can buy Masao’s favourite squid rings. Then she heads straight home where her brother is waiting. Masao stuffs squid rings into his mouth with child-like delight as Kiriko fondly gazes at his smile. The next day, Masao is overjoyed to get his salary. On the way home, Kikue who is seeing off a young man from a house nearby, spots Masao counting the notes inside an envelope. She has an uncomfortable smile on her face when she jams 10,000 yen into his pay packet and asks if he can keep quiet about this. His hand is taken by Kikue and placed on her chest. A shaken Masao is left speechless. Hearing that he had accepted 10,000 yen from Kikue, Kiriko admonishes him. He is not supposed to take money from other people for no reason. Kiriko is about to go and return it, but Masao says he will go alone tomorrow. The next day, Masao visits Kikue’s home. His heart unexpectedly races as he recalls her behaviour yesterday. However, Kikue has been murdered by someone and Masao is detained as a suspect. Getting word of this, Kiriko desperately asserts, “My brother is different from an ordinary person!” But the police officers do not listen to her. On the other hand, Masao trembles in the interrogation and is not able to give an answer. If this goes on, he could end up becoming the murderer. A fretful Kiriko is reminded of the activities of the famous lawyer Otsuka Kinzo (Shiina Kippei) whom she had seen in the news and goes to Tokyo on her own. She pounds on the door of Otsuka’s law firm. Otsuka, who has been extremely busy, is exhausted. He has cleared a big court case and is going on a holiday with his lover, Kouno Michiko (Kimura Yoshino). That is when Kiriko comes to visit. “Can you help my brother? Please!” Otsuka seems moved by Kiriko’s emotional appeal, but Michiko has already come to get him. When he snubs Kiriko, telling her that his fees will go up in price even for cases in faraway places. She concludes, “I see, so you won’t help the poor” and leaves. Bile rises up in Otsuka … … Returning home Kiriko scrambles about for Masao’s sake, but he is sentenced to life in prison at the trial. Even so, Kiriko tries to save him. However, her brother dies of heat stroke while in prison. The abysmal conditions of the cell resulted in his death. Kiriko does not even shed tears in front of Masao’s dead body. She feels an emotion seething within her and vows revenge on Otsuka.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Shinya Shokudo Season 1 (2009)

    Shinya Shokudo Season 1
    Genre:
    Comedy, Food, life
    Country:
    Japanese
    Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
  • Ep 12 SUB

    Beautiful Rain (2012)

    Beautiful Rain
    Genre:
    Family
    Country:
    Japanese
    One day a father with a young daughter is diagnosed as a sufferer of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The father, Kinoshita Keisuke has been separated from his wife by death and has worked at the factory's dorm with his daughter ever since. A skilled craftsman at the metalworking factory, Keisuke is a man with a sunny disposition who is also the team coach for a boys' baseball team. Surrounded by his friends of the neighborhood, he has lived happily with his daughter up until today. Things take a turn when Keisuke realizes that his forgetfulness has taken its toll. He is diagnosed as having early-onset Alzheimer's disease. His daughter, Kinoshita Miu played by child actor prodigy Ashida Mana, is a strong reliable girl on the outside but still a young and vulnerable girl on the inside. Overcoming her mother's death with her cheerful personality much like her fathers', she too must face the consequences of the sickness with her father... A father who has looked after his daughter by himself all this time and a daughter who held faith in her father even without the existence of her mother. Tied to each other by a strong bond, how will they face reality and overcome it? ~ Fuji TV
  • Ep 11 SUB

    Nobunaga Concerto (2014)

    Nobunaga Concerto
    Genre:
    Action, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Military, political, Romance, War
    Country:
    Japanese

    Saburo, an ordinary high school student, travels back in time to the Sengoku era (1549). He encounters a young lord who looks exactly like him and is told, “Be my substitute. I’m the eldest son of the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga.” After the young lord leaves, Saburo is mistaken for Nobunaga by a vassal and taken to the castle. He starts to live as Oda Nobunaga from this day. The young samurai of the Oda family, which is merely a minor feudal lord, set out towards the extraordinary dream of unifying the whole country through the power of Saburo.

    Saburo, a person from modern times who has no experience killing people, does not understand the willingness of the warlords of the Sengoku era to lay down their lives for their family. It is the same for the vassals too. They have had a hard time understanding Nobunaga’s actions ever since the ill-mannered, wilful Saburo took over. Despite this “generation gap across space and time”, they are soon on the brink of achieving their dream.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Killers (2014)

    Killers
    Genre:
    Thriller
    Country:
    Taiwanese
    Nomura is a serial killer who views people as targets to kill. Nomura kills a woman in a room. He records the murder and places it on the internet. Bayu works as a journalist in Jakarta, Indonesia. He happens to see the video and becomes attracted to the beauty layered within the cruel visuals. One day, Bay is attacked by a robber. He fights back and kills the robber. Bayu films the robber dying. He places the recording on the internet. Nomura then sees the video recorded by Bayu. Nomura sympathizes with Bayu. A competition takes place.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Judge! (2014) (2014)

    Judge! (2014)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese

    Kiichiro Ota has recently begun work at an advertising agency. He is then forced to participate in the world's biggest TV Advertising Festival as a judge. There's parties held there every night and Kiichiro is paired with Hikari Ota, who shares the same family name, to act like husband and wife there.

    At the festival, Kiichiro learns that if he doesn't allow the CM from his agency to win the grand prize then he will be fired. Directors from all over the world are gathered at the festival and the judges work within a hotel that is completely closed off. The directors scheme and bargain to make their agency win the grand prize.

    Rival Japanese judges appear in front of Kiichiro.

  • Ep 9 SUB

    Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu (2014) (2014)

    Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu (2014)
    Genre:
    Detective, Drama, Investigation, Mystery
    Country:
    Japanese

    Yukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department. She has excellent negotiation skills. Yukiko then attempts to negotiate with a hijacker on a bus, but something unexpected happens and her mission fails. Yukiko takes full responsibility and takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori". Her boss is Katsutoshi Kajiyama and Yukiko has had a difficult working relationship with him in the past. Her other coworkers include Susumu Hishimoto, Zenjiro Nakata and Haruo Koishikawa.

    A man with leather gloves asks a girl to place a can of cookies in the police substation. Because of this, a police officer dies. Tetsuji Watanabe and Daijiro Kenmotsu, detectives from the #1 investigation team, finds out the identity of the man in leather gloves. They believe the culprit is famous attorney Fujishiro who only takes on miscarriage of justice cases. Fujishiro vehemently denies his involvement in the cookie incident during his interrogation by the Kintori team. Around this time, a man turns himself in and takes responsibility for an explosion at a police substation.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Why Don't You Play in Hell (2013) (2013)

    Why Don't You Play in Hell (2013)
    Genre:
    Action, Comedy, Drama, Mafia, Samurai, Yakuza
    Country:
    Japanese

    Muto (Jun Kunimura) and Ikegami (Shinichi Tsutsumi) are two gangsters who hate each other, but Ikegami is in love with Muto's actress daughter Michiko (Fumi Nikaido). Meanwhile, Muto attempts to make his wife Shizue's (Tomochika) dream come true which is to have their daughter appear in a movie.

    Koji (Gen Hoshino), who is just a passerby, is mistaken for a movie director. Koji then requests to independent film director Hirata (Hiroki Hasegawa) to cast Michiko as the leading actress in his film. Their situation soon goes completely wrong.

    1. Screenplay for "Why Don't You Play in Hell?" was first written by Sion Sono 15 years ago as an action film.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Jigoku de Naze Warui (2013) (2013)

    Jigoku de Naze Warui (2013)
    Genre:
    Action, Comedy, Drama, Gangster, Mafia, Samurai, Yakuza
    Country:
    Japanese

    The film revolves around two men, Mutoh and Ikegami, who are fierce enemies who feel nothing but hatred for one another. However, Ikegami unexpectedly falls in love with Mutoh’s daughter, aspiring actress Mitsuko.

    Mutoh wants to celebrate the release of his wife Shizue from prison by giving their daughter her debut, so he decides to produce his own movie specifically to that end.

    Soon, a movie buff named Koji is hired to direct after being mistaken for a filmmaker and an actual indie film director named Hirata is recruited to help.

    Complicating matters even further, Ikegami soon injects himself into the chaos of his hated rival’s production.

  • Ep 156 SUB

    Amachan (2013)

    Amachan
    Genre:
    Comedy, Family, Friendship, life, Music, School, Sports
    Country:
    Japanese
    Amano Aki goes with her mother Haruko to her hometown in Kitasanriku during a summer vacation. There, she meets her maternal grandmother, Natsu, for the first time. Natsu is a woman diver aka "ama", and Aki thinks that is just so cool. Aki is a second-year high-school student, and she struggles to keep up with the fast-paced life in Tokyo. Having been confined indoors most of the time, everything she sees in the rural town is exciting to her. But most of all, seeing her grandmother diving under the fierce surf along the coastline, leaves a huge impact on her. "I think I would like to be a diver too..."
  • Ep 1 SUB

    7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies (2013) (2013)

    7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies (2013)
    Genre:
    Animals, Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her puppies.
  • Ep 11 SUB

    Biblia Koshodou No Jiken Techou (2013) (2013)

    Biblia Koshodou No Jiken Techou (2013)
    Genre:
    Drama, Investigation, life, Mystery, Novel
    Country:
    Japanese

    Biblia Second-hand Bookstore has been quietly open for business in some corner of Kamakura. Its owner is Shinokawa Shioriko, a young, pretty but introverted girl who is extremely shy around strangers and cannot interact well with people she meets for the first time. However, when it comes to knowledge of old books, no one can to compare to her. Talking about books makes Shioriko forget her shyness. In fact, she becomes eloquent and passionate. She unravels the mysteries and secrets associated with many old books with her vast knowledge and keen eye.

    Adapted from the novel series "The Biblia Antiquarian Bookstore Case Files" (ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖) by Mikami En (三上延).

  • Ep 1 SUB

    SP: The Motion Picture (2010) (2010)

    SP: The Motion Picture (2010)
    Genre:
    Action, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese

    When Kaoru Inoue (Junichi Okada) opposes Soichiro Ogata (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Soichiro makes the cryptic remark "It couldn't be helped. It was for a greater cause ...".

    One month later, at an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto (Yoko Maki), Takahumi Yamamoto (Satoru Matsuo) and Mitsuo Ishida (Yu Kamio). Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.

    Inside the event hall, Kaoru Inoue replies to Ogata calls that everything is fine. The Secretary of Japan then appears on stage and Inoue again senses a threatening existence. Kaoru has a premonition of what will happen in the future. Right after, Kaoru finds a man in a suit holding an umbrella, even though the weather is clear, and starts running towards him. The man approaches the stage and Kaoru is blocked from reaching him by other spectators. Kaoru Inoue warns Eri Sasamoto about the man. As the man attempts to push a button on the umbrella, Kaoru and Eri are able to restrain him and take the umbrella away. The man slips away and runs off.

    Kaoru Inoue chases the man to the center of the city and arrests him near the subway platform. The chase was covered by the media. The chief of SP, Yoshiharu Nakao (Shingo Egami), later stares down at Kaoru and tells him a pipe bomb was discovered in the umbrella which could have caused severe damage. Prime Minister Yuzou Asada (Kei Yamamoto) and other higher government officials gave Inoue favorable reviews, but Kaoru, nevertheless, crossed proper protocols and should refrain from such excessive behavior in the future.

    That evening, a campaign fund raising event is held in support of of Secretary General Kunio Date (Teruyuki Kagawa). After the fund raising event, the secretary for the Ministry of Defense Takikawa (Takehiro Hira), who was a member of the same university political club that Soichiro Ogata attended at Tokyo University, chief international terror agent at the Ministiry of Foreign Affairs Anzai (Kazuki Namioka), Metropolitan Police Department member Mitsuhiko Kaziyama (Satoru Date) and Soichiro Ogata gather together in a suite room of the hotel with Kunio Date.

    There Takikawa tells Soichiro Ogata that its time to perform the plan. Takikawa affirm that the soft landing way pushed by Yuji Nishijima (Kisuke Iida) will not be effective to build up the country. Anzai insists a crisis is needed to change people's values. Kunio Date promises to support them and orders Soichiro Ogata to carry out their plan.

    Around that time, Ichiro Tanaka (Toru Nomaguchi) investigates the relationships between Kunio Date, Kunio Date, Kaziyama and the suicide of government official Yuji Nishijima. A few days later, Soichiro Ogata calls Kaoru Inoue at night to the meet at the park. The park was the same place where tragedy met Kaoru Inoue's parents some twenty years ago. Soichiro Ogata begins to tell a shocking truth, while Kaoru Inoue can't understand his intentions.

    The next day Soichiro Ogata assigns to Security Police officer in the #4 Security Section an assignment to guard Kunio Date. After guarding Kunio Date that night, the terrorist plot finally begins attacking Kaoru Inoue and his colleagues.

  • Ep 8 SUB

    Genya (2010) (2010)

    Genya (2010)
    Genre:
    Investigation, Miniseries, Murder, Mystery, Novel, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese

    A man inadvertently kills his uncle. A woman witnesses this act. These two people fall in love and flee to Tokyo. A detective investigates their past.

    Episodes: 8

    Duration: 54 min.

    Aired On: Sunday

  • Ep 19 RAW

    Aibou: Season 8 (2009) (2009)

    Aibou: Season 8 (2009)
    Genre:
    Action, Detective, Investigation, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese
    Inspector Sugishita Ukyo, head of the Special Missions Division, returns from London and goes home in the sports car of Assistant Inspector Kanbe Takeru, who has come to meet him at Narita Airport even though Ukyo did not ask him to. However, on the way home, Ukyo notices police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department conducting a crackdown outside the agency’s jurisdiction in Chiba Prefecture and gets suspicious. The police officers that Ukyo had seen were riding motorcycles. He lies in wait in a street with a dead end, but the motorcycle police have vanished into thin air. Ukyo is mystified and begins a thorough investigation. The Head of the National Police Agency’s Secretariat, Onoda Koken, appears before Ukyo, who has a bad feeling about what is going on. He tells Ukyo that Honda Atsuto, a revolutionist and senior leader of the leftist radicals “Red Canary”, has secretly returned to Japan.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    Ima Ai ni Yukimasu (2005)

    Ima Ai ni Yukimasu
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, Romance, Time Travel
    Country:
    Japanese

    Yuuji is still a first-grade student, he is having a very hard time understanding what has happened to his mother and the fact that she won't be coming back.

    At the very beginning of the first episode, the voice of the late mother (played by Mimura) is reading from a picture book that she wrote for Yuuji before she died. It is about a mother who dies, but promises to return when the rainy season comes. Yuuji believes in this story and thinks that his mother will come back when the rainy season comes. And surprisingly... she actually does.

    When it begins raining on a June morning, Yuuji runs out into the forest to the special place where he used to play with his mother. His father, Takumi (played by Narimiya Hiroki) chases after him to get him to go to school. When they arrive at the old ruined building where they used to play, Yuuji's mother, Mio is waiting there completely alive and healthy, but she has no memory of them or anything that occurred during her life.

  • Ep 11 SUB

    Yume no California (2002) (2002)

    Yume no California (2002)
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, Friendship, life
    Country:
    Japanese
    Shu is a senior at a low-ranked university. Kotomi is a struggling model. Keiko has a desk job at a small company. All of them are former classmates from junior high school. All of them are not satisfied with their current lives and want to find something better but can't seem to. Reflecting many of the conflicts and anxieties of today's youth, these three turn to each other for support to find the meaning in their lives for which they are searching.
  • Ep 10 RAW

    Handoku (2001) (2001)

    Handoku (2001)
    Genre:
    Medical
    Country:
    Japanese
    As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the aggressive passion he learned on the streets, Ichiban has worked his way to becoming a no-nonsense emergency medicine resident. But it is this same passion that he must learn to control when confronted with a situation beyond his help.
  • Ep 2 SUB

    Hypnosis (1999) (1999)

    Hypnosis (1999)
    Genre:
    Horror, Suspense, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese
    Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented? Written by Infofreak.
  • Ep 49 SUB

    Taiheiki (1991) (1991)

    Taiheiki (1991)
    Genre:
    Drama, Historical, Jidai Geki, Novel, political, War
    Country:
    Japanese

    The life story of Ashikaga Takauji, the founder and the first Sei-I-Tai-Shogun of Ashikaga Shogunate. He was born in the late Kamakura Period, during the time of discontentment with the Hojo clan's monopoly in the Shogunate administration. Emperor Go-Daigo took this opportunity to restore back Emperor's power. After some failed earlier attempts, he succeeded eventually with the help of a few independent Samurai Lords and Takauji's betrayal of the Hojo clan. However, it was not long before the Samurai class revolted due to unfair treatment and discontentment with the Nobles' domination in the new government. As the head of Minamoto descendants, Takauji took responsibility to confront Go-Daigo and establish Ashikaga Shogunate.

    Adapted from the novel "Shihon Taiheiki" by Yoshikawa Eiji.