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- A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- As the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- A reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantises, a castaway woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must learn to raise as a son.
- Muscles, cop from Hong Kong, is in Japan chasing a bad HK cop. His cop partner gets taken by the ninja gang. Muscles gets his 5 old no-good friends from the orphanage to help find the bad cop. Lots of comedy and kung-fu fighting follows.
- A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
- A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. He believes his favorite cow, long gone, is still alive. Noriko pretends to be the cow and lets him milk her - a satisfying arrangement for them both.
- An erotic cat and mouse game set in an all-boys' prep school.
- Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
- Five Japanese high-school girls form a club for some camping fun.
- A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
- Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state of feelings begin to fill her mind, forcing her to come to terms with innermost self.
- Emman and Mercedes fall in love despite her being engaged to the heir of a powerful and wealthy family. Their love threatens to destroy everything they hold dear, including their lives.
- A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
- The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.
- Gunshi 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.
- Yuya has been assigned to work in a rural Japanese town soon after he has landed his first job after graduating college. There, he starts to find purpose in his life which he seems to have lost for a very long time.
- Mai, a school student, refuses to go to school. Her parents are living apart, so her mother sends her to stay with her grandmother. Her grandmother gives Mai training as a witch and also teaches Mai important values on life itself.
- Three Chinese girls a strange letter told them there is an overseas Chinese millionaire living in Japan who believe that he is their father. The millionaire sent air tickets to the girls for meeting him. The girls don't know that what awaits them is a crisis...
- Featuring the best saunas, spas, bathhouses, and natural hot springs around the world.
- Follows the life of translator Hanako Muraoka; from the turbulent Meiji Period, to the Taisho Period and the Showa Period. Hanako Muraoka would go on to translate novel "Anne of Green Gables," by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
- After graduating from high school, Shiro is clueless how to proceed with his education. For the moment, he takes a small job at a local gas station, to much displease of his parents. His America-idolizing grandmother however gives Shiro all support, as she believes that "gas stations are a romantic place for wanderers". Grandmother is right about romance, when a girl called Noriko comes to work at the gas station too, after she broke up with her boyfriend. Shiro develops a huge crush on Noriko, and with this bitter-sweet first love, Shiro enters maturity.
- In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, Kei Asai is a high school student and is able to remember everything. Misora Haruki is also a high school student and she has the power to reset the world by 3 days. If they use both of their powers together, they can go back in time by 3 days and retain their memory. They are watched by the administrative bureau.
- Seiji works on construction sites. He sympathizes with Hosaka just back from Thailand. Together, they spend their evenings in bars with Thai girls. On a construction site, they meet Takeru, a member of the hip-hop collective of the city.
- Teenage romance before it is consummated in the sexual act. Six youngsters spend their last summer together in rural northeastern Japan before heading off in different directions. The focus rests on a pair who don't quite know they're a pair. Taro is sidelined with a broken leg, but that just gives pretty Yoko - staying just a window away - plenty of chances to tease him into good health and open his eyes to the possibilities of grown-up pleasures.
- Acclaimed producer, comedian and actor Teruyoshi Uchimura has his long awaited directorial debut with this heartwarming -baseball theme- human comedy. The stage is a shopping street in a small city. The shop owners used to belong to a famous baseball team in their youth but now everyone is just struggling with daily life and more than this, with a powerful buyer that wants to transform the shopping street in a Wallmart-type shopping center. Their only chance to save the old shopping street is if they are able to reunite the old Peanuts team and to win a bet-game against NewTowns, a professional baseball team.....
- A worldwide maestro Nozomi Naruse was boycotted by members of the orchestra during the concert and was dismissed in charge of its responsibility. And now he's stuck in a mountain hut. Occasionally he visits the liquor store but no one else comes to visit. He hasn't worked for more than a year. However, everything changes when he starts working at local middle school. By spending time with students, teachers and villagers, Naruse gradually changes.
- In 1990 George Bustamante leaves his family in the Philippines and emigrates to Japan, where he finds work as a stunt double in the famous TV series, Force Five.
- 'Kakusei' is a Japanese word that captures how the many sounds created by nature can transport us to a blissful state of awakening, forcing us to be fully present in the moment.
- A businessman who owns his own business becomes the guarantor for a friend who is borrowing money from a lender. Sadly, the friend disappears leaving the man on the hook for the loan. This comes at a time when his own business is failing. When it rains it pours and as he concentrates on his problems and lack of funds, he finds out that his wife has contracted cancer. Despite immediate surgery the doctor's prognosis of the disease is negative. She will not live long. They begin to travel together by car and are on the road for nine months. Upon her death the police arrest and jail the widow believing their travel was negligent and accelerated the woman's death. He is sent to jail. Being imprisoned for over a year gives him time to remember, reminisce and ponder their travels and time on the road.
- Morita Katsuhiro is a bank employee who is married and has a child. His wife, one Morita Chika, picks up their son in order to visit her parents who live in Yamanashi Prefecture, which is in central Japan. Then along comes a lady who should be another bank customer doing routine business, but instead ends up becoming a headache for Mr. Katsuhiro.
- 2001– 1h 27mTV-PG7.7 (59)TV EpisodeOne team is ecstatic thinking they have a serious advantage when they learn the location of the next destination...a place they've been to and where they know the language two teams race in paddle boats that look like ducks during a sprint to the first pit stop of this 2-leg finale. Little mistakes can cost big when the finish line is so close, and one team wastes a lot of time looking for equipment needed for a challenge...they keep walking by it when it is right in front of their eyes. Will this be the difference between first and second place? The last two legs of this race around the world are both mentally and physically grueling. No team is at an advantage over another. And, it is a tight race to the very end. Which duo will win the one-million dollars?