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  • Ep 12 SUB

    Keishicho Kosatsu Ichika (2022) (2022)

    Keishicho Kosatsu Ichika (2022)
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    N/A
  • Ep 12 SUB

    Tsumari Suki tte iitai n Dakedo, (2021) (2021)

    Tsumari Suki tte iitai n Dakedo, (2021)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
    Country:
    Japanese
    The story centers on Chitose, a former bullied girl who became a talent manager. The celebrity she is put in charge of is a domineering actor who was a bully as a child.
  • Ep 8 SUB

    The Company (2021) (2021)

    The Company (2021)
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese

    Upon learning salaryman Aoyagi Seiichi will lose his job due to company cutbacks, his family deserts him!

    Given a reprieve, he must ensure a struggling ballet company achieves financial success with their year-end performance of ‘Swan Lake’. Can he successfully turn the troupe’s fortunes around, despite not knowing the first thing about ballet?

  • Ep 1 SUB

    Angry Rice Wives (2021) (2021)

    Angry Rice Wives (2021)
    Genre:
    Drama, Historical, life
    Country:
    Japanese
    In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
  • Ep 44 SUB

    Awaiting Kirin (Kirin ga Kuru) (2020)

    Awaiting Kirin (Kirin ga Kuru)
    Genre:
    Historical, life, War
    Country:
    Japanese
    After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the country and rule in these turbulent times. In the mid-1540s, there is a young wandering samurai in Mino which is strategically located between the East and West. His name is Akechi Mitsuhide. At this time, there is plenty of internal strife within the Toki clan which rules Mino. Surrounded by the Oda of Owari, the Imagawa of Suruga and the Asakura of Echizen, Mino has constantly faced the risk of invasion. Mitsuhide is pulled into battle and destroys the enemy. His bravery as well as stratagem catches the attention of Saito Toshimasa, the chief retainer of the Toki clan, and he is singled out. This man who is also known as Saito Dosan will go on to takeover the Toki and make Mino his own.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Ashi Girl: Chojiku Love-Com Futatabi (2018)

    Ashi Girl: Chojiku Love-Com Futatabi
    Genre:
    Betrayal, Comedy, Conspiracy, Historical, Romance, Sci-fi
    Country:
    Japanese
    High school girl Hayakawa Yui (Kuroshima Yuina) was sent back in time to 1560 during the Sengoku Period through a time machine built by her younger brother Takeru. She risked her own life to help out the Hagi clan and fell in love with Hagi Kuhachiro Tadakiyo (Ito Kentaro), the heir of the feudal lord Hagi Tadataka (Ishiguro Ken). Tadataka is a typical warlord of the period who believes in winning battles. But his mindset gradually changes because of Yui and Tadakiyo, and he even permits their marriage. Yui is betrothed to Tadakiyo. However, the clan’s arch enemy Koyama Munetsuru (Murata Takehiro), whom they were supposed to have made peace with, launches yet another battle at the instigation of Oda Nobunaga’s vassal Ouga Kazunari (Nishimura Masahiko). Ouga’s true aim is to make Koyama and Hagi fight and capture the country. Tadakiyo leaves Yui behind and heads to the castle where the advance guard is in order to stop this senseless war. Yui tells his father that Tadakiyo believes it is true victory to live. She escapes from the Hagi clan’s stronghold and goes after him …
  • Ep 11 SUB

    Suits 2018 (Japan Drama) (2018)

    Suits 2018 (Japan Drama)
    Genre:
    Business, Comedy, Drama, Law
    Country:
    Japanese

    A remake of the American tv show, Suits.

    Shogo Kai is an arrogant lawyer at one of the biggest law firms in Japan. He is excellent at his job, and only cares about winning his cases. He is close to becoming a senior partner at his firm, but his bosses are concerned with his sole focus on winning. As a condition for him becoming a senior partner, his boss requests that he hires a young lawyer as an associate. Shogo Kai interviews a variety of prospects but none really capture his attention until he meets Daiki Suzuki...

    Daiki Suzuki has had a rough childhood, having lost his parents at a young age and then being raised by his grandma. Despite his hardships, he is an extremely intelligent young man with a remarkable memory. He works a variety of part time jobs in order to financially support his grandmother, and also doing odd jobs here and there like taking the University Entrance exam for others. Once this is discovered, he is kicked out of school and barred from ever taking the bar exam. Once he moves to Tokyo, he continues doing petty crimes. However, when his grandmother's health takes a turn for the worse, he need to start making real money in order to pay her hospital bills. That's when he meets Shogo Kai...

  • Ep 1 SUB

    What a Wonderful Family III My Wife My Life (2018)

    What a Wonderful Family III My Wife My Life
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    The Hirata family have a lively household with three generations living under the same roof. One day, the secret stash of money that homemaker Fumie had put aside gets stolen. When her husband Konosuke snidely complains that she was squirreling away his earnings, Fumie loses it and leaves home. Her absence threatens the Hirata household with ruin.
  • Ep 8 SUB

    Ecchan (2017)

    Ecchan
    Genre:
    Comedy, Historical, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese

    It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this, Etsuko begins a search for Kantaro’s second bride and the new partner who will be her mother. Her first target is her teacher Muraoka Masako whom she eggs on to land a date with her father. However, it does not go very well. The next person who catches her attention is a salesgirl Ikebe Kyoko whom she met at a department store. Etsuko is drawn to Kyoko’s simplicity and gradually begins to love her as if she were her own mother. However, at that moment, Kantaro’s elder sister Tsuruyo pursues the subject of an arranged introduction with Kusakabe Kaoru, the incredibly beautiful daughter of a bank owner who is a shareholder in her husband’s company.

    Based on the novel "Ecchan" by Shishi Bunroku.

  • Ep 1 RAW

    What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)

    What a Wonderful Family! 2
    Genre:
    Comedy, Family
    Country:
    Japanese
    Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.
  • Ep 1 RAW

    The Magnificent Nine (2016) (2016)

    The Magnificent Nine (2016)
    Genre:
    Based on True Story, Comedy, Historical
    Country:
    Japanese
    Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people worry about the future of their town and they set up a plan to save it. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    What A Wonderful Family! (2016) (2016)

    What A Wonderful Family! (2016)
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama, Family
    Country:
    Japanese
    In his fiftieth year of marriage to Tomiko, Shuzo decides to buy her a birthday present for a change. However, she tells him she wants his seal on an application for divorce. Their children swiftly convene a family meeting.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Welcome Back Mr McDonald (1997)

    Welcome Back Mr McDonald
    Genre:
    Comedy, Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako, who is the winner of the competition run by the station. Suddenly, the hot-tempered lead actress Nokko decides she wants the name of her character to be Mary Jane and not Ritsuko. That leads to the chain of events which changes the play completely.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Black House (1999)

    The Black House
    Genre:
    Horror
    Country:
    Japanese
    A meek insurance adjuster named Wakatusuki (Masaaki Uchino) at the Showa Life Insurance company in Kanazawa, receives a phone call from a customer (Shinobu Ootake) who asks whether his company pays on a life insurance policy if the cause of death is suicide. Wakatusuki is then called to the home of a client named Shigenori. When he looks around Shigenori's home, he discovers a body hanging from the ceiling in an apparent suicide. The body belongs Shigenori's teenage son. Furthermore, Wakatusuki discovers that Shigenori has taken out an insurance policy on his wife ... who happens to be the person that called him asking about the payout related to suicides.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Clover (2014)

    Clover
    Genre:
    Comedy, Romance
    Country:
    Japanese
    Saya Suzuki is a young office lady who‘s hopeless when it comes to relationships and still hasn‘t got over her first love. Everyday, Saya is scolded by her extremely strict boss Susumu Tsuge, a handsome executive with a promising future. One day Tsuge surprises Saya by suddenly asking her out. However, even as the two begin dating, Tsuge‘s harsh personality doesn‘t seem to change and they experience various complications on their path toward romance.
  • Ep 12 SUB

    Binta! (2014)

    Binta!
    Genre:
    Drama
    Country:
    Japanese
    Since his mother died, Minowa (Matsu) left his hometown because of his father's irresponsible ways. 10 years later, he hears that his father has died. He goes back to his hometown as 30-year-old man who doesn't have a regular job. Minowa then learns that he has younger step-sister named Kana. He wants to make his Kana happy and looks for a job in earnest. Minowa is finally able to land a job as an office clerk at a law office. Beautiful attorney Natsumi (Sayaka Yamaguchi) has to educate Minowa about the law. Natsumi becomes dumbfounded by his zero knowledge of law and lack of knowledge in general. Natsumi, though, becomes slowly influenced by Minowa's strong sense of justice and love.
  • Ep 11 SUB

    Bitter Blood (2014)

    Bitter Blood
    Genre:
    Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery
    Country:
    Japanese
    Rookie detective, Sahara Natsuki, is assigned to the Investigation Division of Ginza police station. Here he has an unexpected reunion with his father and veteran detective, Akimura Shimao, whom he has been estranged from since his parents' divorce. They find themselves unwilling partners, butting heads repeatedly. Over time, however, Natsuki learns more about how to be a good detective from his father and possibly how to let go of their past as well.
  • Ep 1 SUB

    Tokyo Family (2013)

    Tokyo Family
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, life
    Country:
    Japanese

    Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story is regarded by many as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, a finely wrought tale of human fragility amidst the rampant social upheaval of post-war Japan.

    In Tokyo Family, 81-year-old modern master Yôji Yamada transports Ozu's opus to the Japan of today - a country where economic hope has waned and the threat to tradition is more pronounced than ever.

    Elderly Shukichi and Tomiko swap their remote island home for Tokyo to spend some time with their three grown-up and very different children. Overcome with the stresses of the city, the kids absently shuffle their parents from one to the other, but when Tomiko has a stroke, everything they thought they valued is thrown into devastating relief...

  • Ep 1 SUB

    The Floating Castle (2012) (2012)

    The Floating Castle (2012)
    Genre:
    Action, Historical
    Country:
    Japanese
    In the year 1590, powerful daimyo Hideyoshi Toyotomi nears his plan to unify all of Japan, but he comes across a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Nagachika Narita, in charge of defending the castle, must use his army of 500 men to combat Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 20,000.
  • Ep 10 SUB

    IS - Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei (2011) (2011)

    IS - Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei (2011)
    Genre:
    BL, Drama, Family, Friendship, Hidden Identity, life, Manga, Miniseries, School
    Country:
    Japanese

    “IS” stands for “intersexual,” a term referring to people who cannot clearly be classified as male or female, and who may biologically possess characteristics of both sexes. Rokuhana's manga primarily deals with the troubles faced by the young Hoshino Haru (played by Fukuda), an intersexual who was registered as a girl at birth but has been raised as a boy.

    Goriki plays Aihara Miwako, a mysterious classmate who tries to get close to Haru. Inoue Masahiro has been cast as Ibuki Kenji, a member of the soccer club whom Haru begins having feelings for. Nishida Naomi and Minami Kaho play Miwako's and Haru's mothers, respectively.

  • Ep 1 SUB

    252 Seizonsha Ari (2008)

    252 Seizonsha Ari
    Genre:
    Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
    Country:
    Japanese
    A few weeks after a gigantic earthquake strikes Tokyo, the temperature of the Pacific Ocean suddenly increases and causes the largest typhoon ever seen in Japan to head towards Tokyo with devastating force. The tidal wave generated by the typhoon covers the coastal city area with water. The Tokyo Fire Department dispatches its elite rescue unit, Hyper Rescue, and their sonar picks up a signal from underwater. Beneath the ground, in one devastated subway station, there is someone sending out a code which is known to rescuers only: 252 252 "We have survivors!" A rescue party tries to save the survivors at the risk of their own lives. In the face of death, a daring rescue operation is to be carried out.
  • Ep 1 RAW

    The Exam (1999) (1999)

    The Exam (1999)
    Genre:
    Drama, Family, life
    Country:
    Japanese

    Salaryman Masumi goes to great lengths to get his 6-year-old daughter into a prestigious primary school.

    Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.

    Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

  • Ep 49 SUB

    Hideyoshi (1996) (1996)

    Hideyoshi (1996)
    Genre:
    Drama, Historical, melodrama, political
    Country:
    Japanese

    The 35th NHK Taiga Drama is Hideyoshi, the story of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, named after Hideyoshi's castle. He is noted for a number of cultural legacies, including the restriction that only members of the samurai class could bear arms. Hideyoshi is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier".

    The drama won 11th Television Drama Academy Awards (1996-Dec-20) for best drama.