Riku
Set in 2020 in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo, the story revolves around Hachi, a boy who fled to the Japanese capital from his hometown of Fukushima and now lives away from society as an illegal drug dealer.
In the series Tokyo Miracle City, we unravel the secrets behind some of the capital's most intriguing wonders. In part one, we delve into Tokyo's famed and tantalizing food culture, exploring the role the iconic Tsukiji fish market played in Japan's culinary history. Actor Sato Takeru takes us on a journey back in time as we learn about the lives of the skilled specialists at the heart of the market and discover their unique contribution in the journey of seafood from ocean to table.
Masara
A university orders that old, decrepit Konoe Dormitory be rebuilt, to the opposition of the students who still occupy and maintain it. Movie version with additional scenes of the 2018 NHK's drama show.
This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of despair, he tries to kill himself but is saved by a man who runs a self-support facility. He begins to live at the place, and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer. In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake hits and their friendship comes to an end. Crushed under the debris, Takumi persuades Jun to live his life instead. Jun swears to live on assuming Takumi's identity.
Masahiro Ayakoji
말썽을 일으켜 학교에 나오지 않는 하루에게 과제물을 전해주러 간 시즈쿠. 그런 시즈쿠를, 하루는 유일한 친구로 인정한다. 오로지 공부에만 전념하여 성공하겠다는 일념의 시즈쿠는 하루를 알게 되면서 변화한다. 괴물이 아니라 독특한 개성을 가진 다양한 사람의 다양한 세계를 알게 된다.
Haruto Takuma
치하야는 전국 선수권 대회에 도전하며, 아라타와 만나지만 마음을 어떻게 전해야 할지 알 수가 없다. 갈등이 깊어지며 가루타 게임을 제대로 치룰수나 있을지 자신감은 점점 없어지는데. 파릇한 청춘들의 가루타 게임, 그 결과는?!
Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
Shimazu's Friend (uncredited)
실종된 딸 카나코(고마츠 나나)의 행방을 쫓는 전직 형사 출신 아키카주(야쿠쇼 코지). 그는 딸을 찾는 과정에서 상상할 수도 없었던 진실과 마주하며 엄청난 사건에 휘말리게 되는데…
Kazunori Hiketa
자신이 근무하는 중학교에서 어린 딸 ‘마나미’를 잃은 여교사 ‘유코’(마츠 다카코)는 봄방학을 앞둔 종업식 날, 학생들 앞에서 차분하면서도 단호한 목소리로 자신의 딸을 죽인 사람이 이 교실 안에 있다는 충격적인 사실을 고백한다. 경찰은 사고사로 결론을 내렸지만 사실 마나미는 자신이 담임인 학급의 학생 2명, 범인 A와 B에 의해 살해되었다는 것. 유코는 청소년법에 의해 보호받게 될 범인들에게 그녀만의 방법으로 벌을 주겠다고 선언한다. 이후 사건을 둘러싼 이들의 뜻밖의 고백이 시작되는데……
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
