Kawazoe Hiroshi
Adapted from the manga "Ichikei no Karasu” (イチケイのカラス) by Asami Rito (浅見理都). This special is a sequel to the movie of the same name.
Zenzaemon Kotani
Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, is watching Omine, who lives with him, from Kichizo, a resident of the same tenement house and a boatman. is asked to Kichizo and Mine have eloped and got married, but she feels empty in her boring daily life, and she wants to take a break by crossing the bridge over the river. On the other hand, Kichizo forbids him from crossing the bridge, fearing that his whereabouts will be known to others. Zenzaemon superimposes the appearance of these two people on the appearance of his former self and his wife, whom he killed himself.
Takayuki Seshima
После смерти Сего Огами в Хиросиме детектив Шуичи Хиока успешно осуществил план Сего Огами, который состоял в том, чтобы контролировать якудзу, чтобы предотвратить дальнейшие бандитские войны и спасти невинных людей от причинения вреда. Шуичи Хиока управляет преступными организациями, но из-за одного злого человека, которого выпускают из тюрьмы, ситуация резко меняется.
A connection is found between a string of arsons and a 12 year old murder.
One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.
Kinbee
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.
Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he became the shogun! Yoshimune hides his identity and begins an investigation in the city of Edo in order to find out who he really is. As he grows up, he ends up throwing himself into a turmoil involving the shogunate... This is an entertainment historical drama in which a young 21-year-old named Yoshimune solves the problems of the common people in the city and goes around dealing with merchants and powerful people plotting evil deeds.
a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii
Fuminori Mitsuzuka
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but people become furious that he was not going to be prosecuted. A committee of prosecutors meets and concludes that Seizo Tagane should be prosecuted. An outstanding lawyer Yui Hitotsugi takes the prosecutor's position in the case with the help of the prosecutor Tachibana.
Genshichi Shirasuka
Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
Tsutomu Mukae
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.
The Security Guard Center sets the stage for this drama that stars Mamoru Shinomiya, a newly-hired emergency responder. Together with his brilliant colleagues, all of whom have colorful personalities, they tackle one emergency after another with flying colors and restore the safety and security of their clients and the public.
The mischievous adventures of the historical Zen monk Ikkyu as a child.
Jinnai Chijiiwa
Желая достойно умереть, обедневший самурай Хаширо просит позволения совершить ритуальное самоубийство в родовой резиденции клана Ли. Старый воин Кагею, интендант поместья, пытается отговорить его и рассказывает трагическую историю о молодом ронине Мотоме, обратившемся недавно в резиденцию с той же просьбой. Ужасные подробности смерти Мотома шокируют Хаширо, но он остается тверд в своем решении и просит лишь об одном: чтобы при совершении харакири с ним были три самурая Кагею. Однако по странному совпадению все трое самураев исчезают...
Minoru Kawachi
Когда тридцатилетний Дайкити возвращается домой на похороны своего деда, он встречает в саду незнакомую ему девочку по имени Рин. Его мать объясняет, что та является внебрачной дочерью умершего, а кто является её матерью — неизвестно. Никто из родственников не решается взять к себе и воспитывать девочку, и тогда это решает сделать Дайкити.
Bandit leader "Night Rabbit" Kakuemon has always kept the rule to "never kill, never rape, never steal from the poor", passed down to him by the gang's previous leader. He has never been arrested, and for that, he always thought he would have a peaceful death. But one day, after talking to a young one-armed homeless girl, he decides to break up his gang and turn himself in.
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
Hirataya
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Eiji Yamamoto
Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
Gonbei Terauchi
История Сейбея — скромного самурая низшего ранга и его семьи, живших в эпоху смуты. Сейбей победил в поединке противника деревянным мечом, и когда об этом распространилась молва, он против своей воли оказался вовлеченным в конфликт внутри самурайского клана и получает приказ сюзерена убить такого же, как и он сам, вассала…
Inspector Todoroki
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Detective Kikuma
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
Пятнадцатилетний паренек не может свыкнуться с тем фактом, что он должен тратить свои лучшие годы на неинтересную и бессмысленную школу. Мать его не понимает, плачет. Отец не хочет признавать такого сына.
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .
A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
Mamiya Seijiro
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.