Asian Drama

Yutaka is assigned to work in Bangkok before getting married to his fiancee. There he meets the attractive Toko and the two spend an unforgettable four months together. Just when Yutaka realizes that he has true feelings for Toko, she leaves him. 25 years later, however, they still cannot forget the time they spent together.

After Sugihara Oto’s mother passed away when she was young, she was raised by adoptive parents in the Hokkaido countryside. Although she gave up having dreams, she lives cheerfully and bravely. But she is troubled by her adoptive parents attempts to force her into a marriage with a wealthy man 20 years her senior to save the family from poverty. Soda Ren lost his parents early and was brought up in the great outdoors in Fukushima by his grandfather. However, his grandfather gets swindled and Ren leaves for Tokyo in order to earn money to recover the farmland. He dreams that he will be able to live with his grandfather some day, but reality is harsh. By coincidence, Oto heads to Tokyo too. This is the story of love and growth of six young people from the rural areas who gather in Tokyo.

A young woman named Ruka (Azusa Mine) hasn't been able to leave a theater where she has worked as a projectionist for the last 3 years. Keisuke (Takahiro Nishijima) is a university student in Tokyo. During his summer break he begins to work at the cinema where Ruka stays. Keisuke becomes attracted to Ruka ... 1. Based on the novel "Signuaru" ("Signal" by Hisashi Sekiguchi (first published by Gentosha, February, 2008)2. Azusa Mine makes her acting debut in "Sigunaru ~ Getsuyobi no Ruka".3. Filming took place in a 100 year old theater in Niigata, Japan. 

During the late Heian era, a youth who did not know his birth parents was raised by the Heike (also known as the Taira), a samurai clan of emerging influence. Taira no Kiyomori (Matsuyama Kenichi) was in truth the illegitimate son of Emperor Shirakawa. With his adoptive father, Tadamori (Nakai Kiichi), he got rid of the pirates in the Seto Insland Sea, and was trained to be a samurai. In a period where the samurai were being discriminated by the aristocrats of the upper echelons of society, Kiyomori, who was adept at winning hearts and minds, controlled the pirates. He worked to reform the aristocracy, persisted with the way of life of the samurai and built up the mighty Taira clan (Nakamura Baijaku, Kamikawa Takaya, Fujimoto Takahiro, Daito Shunsuke). Before long, he rose from a senior courtier of the third rank to become the chief minister and the ruler of Japan.

"Based on the life of one of Sono's friends, LOVE EXPOSURE is all about Yu, the son of a Catholic priest who loses his religion when his mother dies. Obsessed with sin and confession, Dad criticizes the state of his son's spotless soul, claiming that his confessions are weak and simple and that he must confess real sins. Unable to make anything up, there's nothing for Yu to do but become a sinner, and so the confused kid learns the ninja-tastic martial art of taking up-skirt photographs. Now a full-fledged pornographer he's really got something to confess, earning beatings from his shocked dad. But in the middle of his new career, while dressed (as the result of losing a bet) as Sasori, the hero of a series of 70's women-in-prison movies, Yu meets the love of his life, Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), who's in the middle of beating up a bunch of horrible men. Drag-clad Yu jumps into the fray and that's when things get complicated. A villainess appears in the person of the giggling young schoolgirl, Aya (Sakura Ando) who shows up, stroking her green parakeet the way a Bond villain strokes his white cat, and soon she's manipulating these two star-crossed lovers in the name of the cult for which she works, the Zero Church."

After being kidnapped and being taken to a cooking school told they must enroll, a group of boys deal with learning tons of recipes while also focusing on thoughts of love, friends, and intentions.