Asian Drama

Natsuki Amakusa , a detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division, and Yuya Shiki, a high school student with an eye for spotting murderers, are involved in the murder of a newspaper reporter, Tadafumi Yamada, who was stabbed to death. The incident was investigated. Although the culprit was safely arrested, Natsuki feels uncomfortable when he confesses that he had no intention of killing the victim. And what is the "certain purpose" of detective Hozumi Yakumo who appears in front of Natsuki and Yuya at the crime scene? A full-scale crime suspense story that shakes the nation begins.

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Adapted from the manga series "Gifted" (ギフテッド) written by Amagi Seimaru (天樹征丸) and illustrated by Amamiya Rima (雨宮理真).

Episodes: 7

Adapted from the manga series "Gifted" (ギフテッド) written by Amagi Seimaru (天樹征丸) and illustrated by Amamiya Rima (雨宮理真).

Episodes: 8

Shinmachi Ryotaro is a 37-year-old professional soccer player. He devoted his life to the sport and he was a member of the national soccer team. After an injury, his play has been in decline. This led to him playing for the J3 League. Now, he is forced to retire as a soccer player. All he knows is soccer, but, at the age of 37, he must find a regular job like other people and work like them. His daughters are extremely proud of him because he plays soccer, so he isn't able to tell them about his retirement. Shinmachi Ryotaro then finds sports management company Victory. He decides to work there and work hard for the company, but, in his mind, he still has a hard time accepting his playing career is over. He faces a big problem at work.

6 people considered "losers" in life begin to live together in a mysterious share house.

Abiko Satoshi is a high school teacher. His life went by smoothly, until a case changed his life.

Oba Sakura is the chief editor of a fashion magazine. She is finalizing a divorce with her husband.

Hata Manta is a retail employee involved with product demonstrations. He considers himself an entertainer, but he is not popular at all.

Mochizuki Mai moved to Tokyo from Hakata. She works at a hostess bar.

Kurumizawa Midori is a civil servant. She is diligent at her job, but she is in mired in debt due to her gambling addiction.

Ikegami Ryuji worked at an advertising agency. He did his job very well, but he was dismissed from his job.

Detective Higuchi Shogo and Emergency Command Center Leader Tachibana Hikari continue to work together to save victims and catch criminals as quickly as possible. They face an evil criminal, but the criminal is not a simple evil person. The criminal exhibits exploding anger, which some younger people have against society. Younger people feel the criminal's behavior is not just a crime, but like representing themselves.

The main character provides an unusual service, offering his companionship for a humble fee. Interestingly, the person who 'does nothing' manages to warm the hearts of the people he meets.

Based on the story of a young man named Morimoto Shouji.

Synopsis: Suzune (Yamasaki Shizuyo) is an elevator girl, she is not the prettiest one, but she falls in love really quickly. Suzune´s friend Tonaka Ippei (Koumoto Junichi) is a manager of cake shop, but he is hardly managing to cope with his job. Yukiko (Sakai Wakana) used to be news announcer, but must work now in variety show. Akai Santa is "Happy Delivery" man, who is mostly controlled by his 4 older sisters. They all are missing love in their lives and during the Christmas they have started to feel loneliness. Without knowing, they will become related to each other in one or other way.

Daichi Kitajima has become a firefighter as a consequence of his childhood experience of being rescued by a fire rescue team. Despite his trauma, he strives to be promoted to become a member of the Special Rescue Team. Beginning with Daichi, this story follows him and his fellow rescue team trainees as they grow as rescue workers, as people, and as men. While facing the indiscretions of youth, and internal conflicts, they encounter the many imbalances between the ideals and reality in lifesaving along the way.

Patients are brought in one after the other. Being put in an environment where there is a race against time to save lives, all they can do is stand there doing nothing. Though they still have a lot to grow as a doctor and as individuals, will they be able to overcome adversity and one day be able to proudly identify themselves as being a doctor? --TBS

The 42nd NHK Taiga Drama is MUSASHI. Many Japanese history buffs are familiar with The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi in the 17th century. Musashi's treatise on strategy and the way to lead instantly became the business executive's bible when the translated version hit the bookstores more than three hundred years later.

In 2003, the story of this legendary swordsman-philosopher-painter comes to life in the NHK Taiga Drama MUSASHI. Based on the famous biography written by Yoshikawa Eiji, this taiga drama boasts a list of stars that reads like a Who's Who of screen and television.

Orphaned before he was ten years old, Musashi (his real name is Takezo, so you'll hear his childhood friends call him by that name) grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword, becoming a stronger samurai. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate Duel at Ganryujima.