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- StarsYukie NakamaYukiyoshi OzawaSusumu TerajimaReporter Narumi Ryoko loses her job at a first-rate publisher and ends up at a trashy tabloid called "Shukan Untouchable." She now chases celebrity scandals and sensational stories, but she hasn't lost her sense of duty or her persistence. While investigating her stories, she tends to notice details that imply some hidden truth beneath the surface, leading her to probe deeper into dangerous secrets.
- StarsHaruka AyaseTakayuki YamadaKimiko YoOne boy kills his father to save his first love. One girl takes the life of her mother to protect the boy. The two commit a crime to hide another, and move on with life, turning their backs against the sun.
- StarsShigenori YamazakiMasami NagasawaEita NagayamaLast Friends tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home and she is bullied at her workplace where she works as a beauty pearlier assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and the only person who can give her emotional support, but ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru's in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents or close friends grows evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to females due to his kindness and perceptiveness, and finds himself attracted to Ruka but has a phobia of sex as a result of a past trauma. The three of them become house mates and through their associations with others, gain the capacity to be positive about life.
- CreatorHisaya NakajôStarsMaki HorikitaShun OguriTôma IkutaMizuki disguises herself as a boy and transfers to the same all-boys high school her idol, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete that gave up on the sport, attends. In between the antics of their classmates, she'll try to get him to jump again.
- CreatorShinobu KaitaniStarsErika TodaShôta MatsudaMichiko KichiseTrusting, gullible Nao suddenly finds herself participating in the mysterious Liar Game, a game where the players are issued large sums of money which they then have to cheat each other out of. A few get rich, while the rest find themselves in debt for life. Nao's opponent is her former teacher. Relieved, she goes to him for advice, but is tricked into giving him all her money. With no idea of how to retrieve the money to avoid debt, Nao is desperate. When she gets a tip that a genius swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, is about to be released from prison, she turns to him for help. With some initial reluctance, Akiyama agrees to be her right-hand man in the game. As the two get pulled deeper into increasingly difficult levels of the game, it gradually becomes clear that their participation was far from coincidental.
- StarsMakiko EsumiTomohisa YamashitaToshirô YanagibaKozue Ogawa has been married to Hideo for seven years and they don't have any children. One day, Kozue meets a young man who is a high school student. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate about her life.
- StarsMao InoueJun MatsumotoShun OguriAfter a year of separation, Makino and Domyoji see whether their love can triumph over the many obstacles placed in their path. F4 (Flower Four), 4 close friends, are crucial to their journey.
- StarsMao InoueJun MatsumotoShun OguriMakino Tsukushi is an ordinary student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school for the ridiculously rich and privileged which is ruled by the Flower 4, or otherwise known as the F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families.
- StarsYôsuke EguchiMasaharu FukuyamaNoriko SakaiA car accident killed a couple, orphaning their six children. At that time, the eldest child, Tatsuya, was only 18 and had to attend marathon training. Lacking the confidence to take good care of his siblings, he separately relocated them to the homes of their relatives and adopters. However, after seven years and a career-ending injury, Tatsuya decides to reunite his brothers and sisters to live together under one roof. To his disappointment, he is met with resentment and discord.
- StarsHiroki NarimiyaYutaka MatsushigeTakashi KashiwabaraHoney and Clover follows the lives of five college students and their love triangles.
- StarsHiroshi AbeHiroyuki MiyasakoMasaru NagaiA Proud "man of the house", Yamamura Kazuyuki is the bread winner in a society where men bring home the money. He is a tv commercial director and makes good money to support his wife and son. After recently buying a house, he finds his new neighbor is a stay at home dad. Finding it hard to respect a man who isn't the money maker, he finds the tables are turned as he himself is out of work and running the household, while his wife returns to the workforce. It isn't quite as easy as he keeps telling everyone, but that's okay since he is looking for a new job and should have one soon.It is a look at how society is changing with often times, hilarious results. Struggling to keep his head above water, he finds himself being tutored by his neighbor (even if he doesn't want to be), and at the same time building a friendship.Through trials and tribulations, he learns to respect his new role, while giving credit to the women (and men) who are the ones staying home and keeping home-life afloat.
- StarsShun OguriHiro MizushimaYuriko YoshitakaTakakura So witnessed his father's murder at a young age. Pledging to catch the killer, he grows up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cool-headed and disciplined, yet adapts well. Because of major drug dealings, he gets sent to Tokyo to conduct a joint investigation with the Japanese police. There, he gets teamed up with, Kudo Maruo, a detective from a special investigative division. Kudo is a hot-blooded fighting expert due to his earlier days as a delinquent, but he makes a strong impression with his stylish appearance and is always interested in going on group dates. His personality, interests, and investigation methods are completely mismatched with Takakura's, but the two somehow work together to crack the case they've been given.
- StarsErika SawajiriRyô NishikidoHiroko YakushimaruThe story of a 15-year-old high school student, Ikeuchi Aya, who soon discovers she has an incurable disease that affects the cerebellum of the brain. Aya lived her life to the fullest until her death at 25.
- StarsKuranosuke SasakiKenta KiritaniYumi AsôThe story takes place in a department store, where Shizu-chan plays an elevator girl and Komoto plays the manager of a cake shop.
- StarsMiki MayaHiro MizushimaKuranosuke SasakiUnlucky in love office lady Riiko Izawa is ready to give up on relationships when a mysterious man who offers her the perfect boyfriend.
- StarsYukie NakamaHaruhiko KatôYoshiko TanakaA love story of Masaki, a 17-years-old girl, who contracted HIV after selling her body in order to earn money for the concert ticket and Ishikawa Keigo, a famous composer who she is a big fan of and whose concert it was.
- CreatorTakatoshi YamadaStarsRyunosuke KamikiHidetaka YoshiokaKô ShibasakiAfter making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and the islanders are now used to traveling for hours via boat for proper medical care. Despite seeming weak and unreliable (he gets very seasick, and does not have a driving license), he wins over the skeptical islanders with his skill and dedication. Some children of the island make a flag for his clinic, but get his name wrong. Thereafter he is known by all as Koto.
- StarsTsuyoshi KusanagiKoyukiRyôTetsuro Koyanagi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of J-pop group SMAP), a workaholic, is caught off-guard one day by his wife's sudden request for a divorce. He fails to take her seriously, and she leaves him, running off to Paris. However, she also leaves behind their young daughter, Rin (adorably portrayed by Karen Miyama). Tetsuro has not played much of a part in raising Rin, but he learns what being a father means to him, as well as what he really wants in life, with emotional support from Rin's English teacher Yura Kitajima (Koyuki).
- StarsKazunari NinomiyaRyô NishikidoErika Toda"When we grow up - We'll kill him together". Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just in elementary school, and they vowed to avenge their death. Fourteen years later, their vengeful plan unravels countless new facts. A shocking revelation leads to an overwhelmingly emotional ending. What will become of the siblings who have lived their lives solely in reliance of their bond alone?
- CreatorKozueko MorimotoStarsYukie NakamaKatsuhisa NamaseKen UtsuiGokusen is the story of Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, a fourth generation crime syndicate member. She's gone straight and wants to be a teacher though, but she's one you don't want to mess with.
- StarsMisaki ItôAtsushi ItôMiho ShiraishiWith the help of an online community, a nerdy and socially awkward man gathers the courage to start dating an attractive lady he met on a train.
- StarsMokomichi HayamiSaki AibuShôta MatsudaMakoto is a promising oarsman at a University regatta team. One day, he loses his best friend by a tragic accident which he believes and blames himself for the very cause. Although he once leaves the team out of tremendous sense of responsibility, he finally decides to return by the encouragement of Misao and his teammates, and for the love and passion of regatta. He is determined than ever to become a top class oarsman and struggles to fulfill his dream to participate in the Olympic games. Through the severe practices and competitions of regatta, Makoto learns the bitterness and difficulties of life. Rivalry with teammates, agonies of love and friendship.
- StarsMao InoueHideaki ItôGekidan HitoriA bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.
- StarsYûki AmamiYutaka TakenouchiTetsuji TamayamaThis series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. In fact, her assignment in the U.S. was really a demotion after she ruined her career track over a man. So why was she chosen as the boss of the new division? Even though the detectives are talented, they all have some kind of issue or flaw, and they are considered to be the "problem children" of the police force. In the end, the division's true purpose is just to isolate these problematic detectives.
- StarsToshi ShioyaNobuko OtowaYûko TanakaTells the story of Oshin, a poor little girl who would someday become the owner of a big supermarket chain in Japan.
- CreatorClampStarsAnne WatanabeShôta SometaniKaren MiyazakiKimihiro Watanuki high school pupil and loner has a secret, he can see ghosts, a gift or curse he could well do without. One day he is drawn to the house of Yuko ichihara, a self styled dimensional witch who offers to cure him in return for an unspecified length of service as her house boy. Watanuki and his friends are slowly drawn into a world of ghosts, God and demons and an unending battle between the forces of positivity and the darkness.
- StarsEmi TakeiKahoMasaki OkadaAsuka, a popular ultra-masculine high school student who has a secret liking for feminine things, falls in love with Ryo, a girl with a manly personality.
- CreatorMotoka MurakamiStarsMiki NakataniWayne LeGetteTakao OsawaA brain surgeon named Minakata Jin faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period.
- StarsMasaharu FukuyamaIkkei WatanabeYuriko YoshitakaYukawa Manabu, also known as Detective Galileo, is a genius physicist and university professor who solves unusual mysteries. His partner, Utsumi Kaoru, is a rookie cop.
- StarsJuri UenoHiroshi TamakiEita NagayamaTwo musicians united in talent, divided by nature - the upper-class perfectionist Chiaki and the sloppy middle-classer Nodame - fall in love.
- StarsOrie TôjôYû AoiRanran SuzukiHanda Sen is the "okami" (proprietress) of a long-standing restaurant in one of the lower parts of Tokyo. Though she is normally air-headed and loves to drink, she has an impressive mastery of a wide range skills, from cooking to ceramics to calligraphy. While the drama follows various events surrounding the restaurant, one of the series' highlights is its illustration of Japanese food and culture.
- StarsTakuya KimuraTeruyuki KagawaHaruka AyaseA Japanese crime scene investigation team recruits a neuroscientist to aid them as they try to solve cases. With his intelligence, he uses logic to deduce who commits the crime and how.
- CreatorIra IshidaStarsTomoya NagaseAi KatôYôsuke KubozukaMakoto who lives in Ikebukuro West Gate Park, an area known for juvenile delinquency and gangs, tries to solve the mystery of the death of a friend, he finds himself very indisposed in many mysteries and problems.
- StarsMao InoueShigeru IzumiyaKeisuke KoideAt age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she befriends a group of children who make a living by pick-pocketing. At the same time, she finally meets her prince charming Senbei, the leader of the group. However, she soon finds herself in an awkward position when she learns of the children's new plot: they are planning to steal the treasures from her own castle. Will she be able to put a stop to it without revealing her true identity?
- StarsTsubasa YadomeHayato IchiharaTakumi SaitôSet in present day Japan in a provincial town, Bunzo Kurosawa, a greedy and violent father, is murdered in his own home. Bunzo has 3 sons: oldest son Mitsuru (Takumi Saito), second son Isao (Hayato Ichihara) and youngest son Ryo (Kento Hayashi). The three sons are suspected of murdering their own father.
- StarsErena MizusawaKôji SetoAkiko KikuchiAn ordinary senior high school girl named Mika meets Hiro, a showy boy with dyed hair and pierced ears. It is a "pure love" story of the two going through many unimaginably sad incidents while nurturing their love single-mindedly.
- StarsShun OguriNorito YashimaYû YamadaKoyama Kazumi is an optimistic and generous college student that will go as far as indebting himself to help others. Yet this becomes a problem when he asks a money lender for a loan, which endangers his possibilities of getting a job.
- StarsKeiko KitagawaGacktYûka"In this world of uncertainty, would we be happier if we could predict the future...?" What would you do if all of your dreams had a way of coming true...including nightmares? Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other peoples matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her home-room class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuikos nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined? Akumu-chan is a family drama enjoyable from kids to adults, packed with excitement and fun fantastic visuals with a pinch of humor that shows how Ayami learns the true meaning of life. Each episode will transport the viewer to a bizarre and seemingly paranormal dream world that is a fantasy-filled treat to the eye and an oneirocritical ride for the mind! --NTV
- StarsTakuya KimuraTakako TokiwaAtsuro WatabeA talented hairstylist meets the love of his life, a terminally ill woman.
- StarsTomoya NagaseMika NakashimaYoshiyoshi ArakawaA 30-year-old single detective, who is under the illusion that he is popular with females is called 'Unubore' by friends. He is an ultra romantic and susceptible to conceitedness. He has such a strong desire to marry to the extent that he has bought an apartment for his newlywed life. He falls in love with female criminals at first sight each time. While the sheer desire to meet wraps around him, he will get proof that the female is the culprit. And so, he will thrust both the arrest warrant and marriage papers at her, proposing with the words, "If you marry me, I won't arrest you." If that still does not work, he will hold out an engagement ring and his handcuffs. In the end, the criminal will choose to be arrested and his heart will be broken. He will cry as he puts the handcuffs on her.
- StarsTakuya KimuraKiichi NakaiKarinaOriginally a mid-level manager with a promising future in a big corporation, the life of this elite employee changes dramatically one day. Having attracted the attention of his superiors for some reason, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, he is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two children. Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life.
- StarsEita NagayamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiA romantic home comedy about 30-year-olds with an immature view on marriage that focuses on themes related to married couples and families in general.
- StarsRen ÔsugiNaoki HosakaTomoko NakajimaAfter his wife is murdered, a homicide detective develops multiple personalities and takes revenge on her killer. Years later the killer seems to reappear from the dead.
- StarsTakuya KimuraTakashi UkajiShingo IppongiKohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor who possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have.
- StarsSatoshi TsumabukiEita NagayamaHikari MitsushimaThe life of five brothers living in the same house, each of them with his own drama, love and tragedy.
- StarsAtsushi ItôTôru NakamuraYûko NatoriA top notch seven-member team of doctors and nurses known as "Team Batista" are Tojo University Hospital's pride and joy. The medical team performs a prominent heart surgery known as the Batista Operation which has a normal 60% success rate, but the team has consecutively pulled off twenty six successful surgeries. However, the streak is broken after a string of three procedures end in their patients' deaths. Consequently, an internal investigation is launched with hospital therapist Kohei Taguchi in charge of uncovering the truth behind the incidents. When Taguchi is unable to find any definitive information, the deaths are labeled as unexplainable accidents. The evaluation is subsequently dismissed by Keisuke Shiratori, an investigator with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, who re-launches the investigation on the basis that the deaths were actually murders.
- StarsAya UetoMichiko KichiseTakumi SaitôThe story is about two women who each have a affair.
- StarsMachiko OnoYumi AsôYûko GenkakuBased on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka
- StarsJun MatsumotoRiisa NakaNanako Matsushima7 detectives, each with their own unique style in problem solving, work at the same detective agency. Each detective is in charge of their own case file until one day, the cases somehow seem to tangle up together into one big mystery. Inevitably, the detectives are left with no choice but to team up together in tackling the intriguing, but complex mystery. Despite differing opinions and amidst complications, the detectives work together to unravel the truth behind the suspect's agenda.
- StarsMasato SakaiAya UetoMitsuhiro OikawaAn idealistic banker takes on corruption and wrongdoing at his corporate bank. He must use his financial expertise, his instincts about human nature, and his skills of improvisation to try to stay one step ahead of his powerful enemies.
- StarsKen WatanabeKoji YakushoMachiko OnoA 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
- StarsMasaharu FukuyamaShimba TsuchiyaMasaomi KondôThe story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration.
- StarsYûji OdaEri FukatsuMiki MizunoA rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
- StarsNana EikuraKeisuke KoideMasataka KubotaUniversity students Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki is arrested at the scene and is given a 10-year prison term because of his voluntary confession. 10 years later, Takano Shigeru, a former police officer who has misgivings about the verdict of this case, starts to pursue the truth. He is convinced that it all began as a result of an incident caused by Nozomi and Naruse on an island in the Seto Inland Sea on the summer 15 years ago. "They committed a crime at that time. It was for the sake of each N."
- StarsKazuya KamenashiTomohisa YamashitaMaki HorikitaA popular high schooler and his oddball friend help a shy girl get rid of her bullies by attempting to make her the most popular girl in school.
- StarsTomoya NagaseYui AragakiYûya TegoshiThe series is mainly about a 27 year old man named Makio Sakaki. His purpose is to become a successor after his father. However, he must pass high school first in order to prove himself worthy in the family for if he fails, his younger brother will take over, instead of him. Through the school years, he faces many obstacles such as righteousness, friendship, and perhaps even love.
- StarsEri FukatsuNaohito FujikiRyôko HirosueA man who constantly applies the brake in his life, a woman who could do with a brake in her life. It's in summer of 2005 that the journey of their passionate love begins. Here's a bright and breezy love story that makes us feel how wonderful it is to fall in love. Since we only have one life to live, why not do what we want and live with someone you love? A morning in early summer. The 25-year old Riichi, an instructor at a driving school, is riding coolly on his motorcycle. Isaki is a 31-year old woman who is learning how to drive there. As luck would have it, they end up meeting each other. Although the two of them had very clear plans for life up to a few years ago, reality isn't so nice. Riichi has settled for work as a driving instructor to make his living while Isaki has been given charge of a store. Pursued by the bustle of everyday life, they're living lives where they tend to forget to take a fresh look at things.
- StarsKôtarô KoizumiKyoko HasegawaRyôko KuninakaSugimuro Saburo and some of his staff get caught in a bus hijack. The hijacker tells the hostages that he will pay compensation money to them when the hijack has ended. However, the hijack takes an unexpected turn and the mystery begins.
- StarsSatoshi TsumabukiKô ShibasakiHiroki NarimiyaYuuki Kai is a senior at a university studying social welfare psychology and trying to find a job. One day, he encounters a girl, Hagio Sae, playing the violin, and becomes intrigued.
- StarsShun OguriSatomi IshiharaSaki AibuHyuga Toru who run an internet website from his small room and doesn't like to socialize makes a lot of money. He then meets Sawaki Chihiro, a hardworking student who by an unexpected occurrence begins to work for Toru.
- StarsHiroshi TamakiKarinaShôta MatsudaA power failure strands four apartment dwellers living on the same floor in the elevator. While stuck, they decide to try "shuffling" their love relationships and partners with each other.
- StarsYû AoiJun'ichi OkadaSadao AbeThe show revolves around Rakugo, a traditional Japanese comedy that can look back on a 400 year long history. It tells about a Yakuza who goes to a Rakugo performer to collect debts, and a talented comedian who tries to change his destiny.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaKeiko KitagawaSaki AibuShirakawa Riko and Kamiya Naoki's intertwined fates lead them on a difficult journey towards love.
- StarsTakuya KimuraKôichi SatôYûko TakeuchiHalu (Kimura Takuya) is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game. Aki (Takeuchi Yuko) is a typical OL (office lady), and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Aki's friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Halu for the first time. After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Aki, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Halu, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part. The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Aki and Halu, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party. Hyodo (Sato Koichi) has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Halu has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately, he can't stand Hyodo's way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Hyodo criticizes the former coach's strategies. Whenever Halu and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel; consequently influencing Halu's behavior during games. Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Halu to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him. Aki is hurt, Halu is irritated, and his teammate Hotta (Sakaguchi Kenji) can't stand seeing Halu like this
- CreatorYayoi OgawaStarsKoyukiJun MatsumotoSatomi IshiharaSmart, successful and good-looking Iwaya Sumire works for a big newspaper. However, her boss asks her to leave for being too "perfect" a woman. Feeling angry and dejected Iwaya returns home depressed, and most of all lonely. However, when she finds an unconscious young man lying in a box out the front of her home and takes him in. He looks like a dog she used to own called Momo. She dub shim Momo and decides to "keep him as a pet." It's the start of an unexpected life together as they overcome obstacles and become quite attached to one another. But can love like this exist?
- StarsTakayuki YamadaErika SawajiriNao MatsushitaWhile working at a seaside inn with his high school buddies, Fujishiro Koji meets Kaoru Amane, a street musician. Kaoru is suffering from an incurable disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum), and can't be exposed to the sun. Under the sun, the two would never have met. Still, destiny brings the two together. Since the day he suddenly lost his job, Koji has lost sight of his dreams. But when he meets Kaoru,who is making positive efforts to become a singer, Koji regains his long-forgotten passion for music.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaMaki HorikitaYui IchikawaKurosaki, aka Kurosagi (Yamashita Tomohisa), is a swindler who cheats other professional con artists to help their victims and avenge the death of his own family. Kurosaki buys information about other swindlers from the man who cheated his family, Katsuragi Toshio (Yamazaki Tsutomu).
- StarsNana EikuraHiro MizushimaTakeru SatohAfter her parents die, Mei discovers that she is the heir to a rich and powerful family; she must leave her humble surroundings to attend a new school and work with her new butler, who wants to do everything for her.
- StarsKaoru KobayashiMansaku FuwaToshiki AyataShinya Shokudo is a tv series from Japan since 2009. It tells many stories about ordinary people eat in shinya shokudo, which means a restaurant at midnight. This small restaurant opens from 12 in the evening to 7 in the morning.
- StarsEita NagayamaJuri UenoMegumi SekiThe blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
- StarsShun OguriYui AragakiKiichi NakaiHayakawa Vito has a Filipino father and a Japanese mother, but he was born and raised in Japan and has never visited the Philippines. The ever-smiling Vito works at Machimura Foods during the day, and at night, he works a part-time job trying to make his dreams come true. One day during an incident at a bookstore, he meets a girl named Mishima Hana, who lost her ability to speak due to an accident. But even though she can't speak, Vito is drawn to her beautiful smile. However, Vito becomes wrongly suspected by the police for a crime, and after meeting the lawyer Kazuma, the issue begins to grow - Together, Vito, Hana, and Kazuma will go through challenging times and have to overcome many obstacles.
- StarsMiho KannoHiroshi TamakiMichiko KichiseA pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life - however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?
- StarsTakuya KimuraTomoko YamaguchiYutaka TakenouchiA group of friends do their best to handle life's daily struggles. Two of them, an ambitious musician and a struggling model, are drawn to each other.
- StarsShunsuke KazamaTôma IkutaYûki HimuraAkihabara is a Tokyo district full of mangas, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku. Page, Box, Akira, Taiko, Daruma, and Izumu are six otaku each with his/her own troubles and sought relief through a website called "Yui's Lifeguard." When site owner Yui died of a mysterious death, the six who are each experts in their own fields gathered to form "Akihabara@DEEP", a "trouble shooter" group that vows to protect Akihabara and solve the problems of its inhabitants.
- StarsJuri UenoJoe OdagiriChiaki KuriyamaA young woman tried to take revenge on the doctors who are responsible for her father's death.
- StarsYukie NakamaYutaka MatsushigeRyô KaseTwo lonely young people meet on a train platform when, having instinctively realized that a man is about to throw himself in front of a train and they jump in to prevent him. Slowly, delicately, sometimes awkwardly, they begin a relationship.
- StarsYutaka TakenouchiKeiko MatsuzakaKen OgataMunesue, a Japanese detective assigned to solve the murder of a causasian in Japan, discovers that Ken Schuftan, his American detective counterpart, killed Munuesue's father.
- StarsJun KunimuraShihori KanjiyaToshinori OmiAndo Natsu, whose dream is to become a patisserie, finds herself jobless after the shop owner's sudden death. She goes to Tokyo in search of another job at a confectionery but the recruiting period has just ended and there are no available positions. This is when she makes her first encounter with the well-established Japanese confectionery "Mangetsudo". It is run by the veteran confectioner Umekichi, Takezo, and Mitsuko, and they happened to be looking for a part-time worker. A number of chance events follow and Natsu starts working at Mangetsudo. Although her job is to serve customers, Natsu becomes interested in the world of Japanese confection. Having only worked in cake shops, everything is new to her and she is gradually drawn into the deepness and profoundness of Japanese confection.
- StarsTôma IkutaShun OguriJuri UenoIkuo and Tatsuya grow up in an orphanage, tragically witnessing their beloved teacher's murder. Years later, Ikuo is now a detective while Tatsuya leads a crime syndicate. Resolved to find the perpetrator, they can only trust each other.
- StarsTomohisa YamashitaMasami NagasawaNana EikuraThis is a romantic comedy in which a young man who missed a chance to confess his love, is given a second chance and struggles to undo the past and win the heart of the woman on the day she is getting married to someone else.
- StarsHaruka AyaseSôta FukushiHiroshi TamakiA love triangle develops between a shy office worker, a part-time worker and a CEO.
- StarsKazunari NinomiyaTomohisa YamashitaAnne SuzukiAs the summer holidays begin, four boys find themselves the last virgins at their school, so they'll face parents, teachers, childhood friends, crushes and their own awkwardness in their subsequent attempts to lose their virginity.
- StarsMinamiJin AkanishiYû KashiiA comedy about six student council members at an elite, private high school that caters to the wealthy, who start their own "Leisure Club."
- StarsAi YoshikawaYoshinori OkadaMokomichi HayamiYamashita Kotaro was living a peaceful life as a publisher part-timer aspiring to be a mobile phone novelist until two females suddenly appeared in his life. One is his six-year-old celebrity niece and the other is the little girl's stern manager. As he is forced to live under the same roof as the little prodigy, their differences soon manifest and disputes ensue. However, through co-habitation, Yamashita slowly comes to appreciate having a family and the warmth it brings, all the while developing a love-hate relationship with Fuji Mineko, the manager.
- StarsJun'ichi OkadaGaku HamadaMiki NakataniGunshi Kanbei (Strategist Kanbei) is a-year long taiga drama by NHK in 2014. This fictional series consists of 50 episodes and follows the journey of Kuroda Kanbei, a historical figure who lived during Japan's Warring States period as he navigated the murky water of political intrigues and military conquests of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu - the three unificators of feudal Japan. A brilliant tactician, Kanbei was one of Hideyoshi's trusted strategists who was known for his bravery and handicap.
- StarsYûko TakeuchiSatoshi TsumabukiMisaki ItôNatsumi loves lunch. By chance she starts working for "Kitchen Macaroni", posing as the fiance of the owner's eldest son, Kenichiro. Kenichiro's father Kenzo and his three younger brothers - Yujiro, Junzaburo, and Koshiro - run the restaurant, famous for its omelet. Also working at the restaurant are Mamoru, a chef, and Minoru, a live-in apprentice cook. Not everyone has a liking to Natsumi at first, but over time they will surely fall in love with her.
- StarsRyô NishikidoHikari MitsushimaKento NagayamaHeisuke Hara works as a teacher at an all-boys high school where he had an unfortunate accident 15 years ago. Now, it's decided that the boys school where he works will be merged with a girls school because of a decline in student numbers.
- StarsJun'ichi OkadaShô SakuraiWakana SakaiTwenty-one year old former high school baseball player, Kohei (nickname: Bussan), learns that he is dying from cancer. He is told that he only has six months to live, and decides that he wants to do something daring and risky. He proposes to five trusted members from his former baseball club that they form a ring of cat burglars that would steal from those who commit crimes. His friends think it odd,but feel they cannot turn down a dying man's request. With only six months, how much could they do anyway?
- StarsFumiyo KohinataRyûhei MatsudaChiaki KuriyamaCan a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.