Mayuko Fukuda

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a struggling actress named Machiko who lives in Kamata. Machiko is the central axis of the movie as the film comically depicts what it means to be a "woman" and an "actress" in society through showing the patterns of life as conducted by her and the people that surround her.

Sakura Ueno has recently quit her job and decided to work temporarily in a nursery school at a friend's request. There she meets a whole lot of cute kids including a girl named Ai. Shindo, the girl's father, often comes to pick her up late after school. Seeing him pick up his daughter triggers a memory of her own father, following this, changes happen…

The vocalist of a broken up band tries to get the group back together.

Members of Kanna's university dance circle got together for the first time in a few years to celebrate the engagement of Kanna and Masao. Suspicion arises that Kanna and another member had sex, leading to fights and arguments between friends.

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.

A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time.

Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.

Youths taking on the challenge of men's cheerleading is depicted in this coming-of-age drama by GOGO♂ike-men5 writer/director, Fukuyama Sakurako. Seven member song & dance group, "Bullet Train," star in their first film. Seven childhood friends who belonged to a youth group in their neighborhood association have grown up and gone their separate ways. Through unusual circumstances, they are entrusted with an event at the neighborhood festival and give their all to lift the spirits of a young girl, Hana (Iwasaki Miku) and her shut-in mother Usagi (Asami Reina) through cheerleading.

A meeting in the middle of Tokyo between Jan, a middle age French photographer who is living his life carelessly, and Flare, a 17 years old runaway girl with a complicate family background. Charmed by Jan’s works, a budding of love soon developed in Flare. While attracted to the wild life of Jan, she holds onto a complicated feelings. With this swaying conflicts inside of her, it painted a vivid picture of growing up in this Japan – France collaboration work of a painful love story.

Hirosue and Nagase will play a married couple in this tearjerker, based on a true story of two parents who are told that their daughter Miho (played by Manatsu Kimura) has one year left to live due to a brain tumor. The drama depicts the family's remaining time together, including the 359 letters that Miho drew before her death. --Dramawiki

Фильм рассказывает о мире детства — чистом, наивном и простом, который не имеет границ, где нет понятия невозможного. Захотев, можно подружиться и с немного странной приезжей из Токио, и с принцессой из далекого прошлого. Возможно все, пока есть сила духа и воображение — такова тысячелетняя магия, к которой прикоснулись Синко и ее друзья. Вырастая, мы теряем эту связь, именно поэтому детство человека освещает всю его дальнейшую жизнь. Так было в эпоху Хэйан, так будет и впредь!

The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?

Герои фильма — перебивающийся подработками 28-летний Масато и 14-летняя Харуми. Масато неожиданно для себя узнает, что ему осталось жить лишь несколько дней. В больнице он встречает Харуми, безвылазно находящуюся там с семи лет и ни разу в жизни не видавшую моря. «На небесах только и говорят что о море», — с этой фразы и начинается их путешествие…

Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945.

Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances. He doesn't fit in at first, but he eventually gains a reputation as a detective and opens his own detective agency. One day, he hears about the town's legend of buried treasure, and he immediately begins unraveling the mystery.

Когда отец Акари с головой ушёл в работу и перестал уделять внимание семье, девочка решила завести себе собаку. Бездомный щенок нашёлся тут же, на заднем дворе, но перед тем как взять его домой, мать Акари составила для дочери список из десяти "обещаний", которые она должна была выполнять по отношению к своему питомцу.

После окончания расследования по делу Киры L сталкивается с еще одним серьезным случаем. В мире снова появляется человек, который обладает страшным оружием. На этот раз L должен обходиться без своего верного помощника Ватари и у него остается всего 23 дня, чтобы раскрыть это дело.

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...

Хулиганистый парень Кай случайно находит рояль в лесу. Сын знаменитого пианиста Сюхэй недавно переехал в город. Ребята подружились, и Сюхэй подталкивает Кая развивать музыкальный талант после того, как они узнали, что прежним владельцем пианино был учитель музыки из их школы. Но чем лучше становится Кай, тем больше растет соперничество между друзьями, оба стремятся к победе в музыкальном конкурсе.

Учёные вычислили, что Япония уйдёт под воду в течение сорока лет из-за того, что тектоническая плита, находящаяся под Японским архипелагом постепенно перемещается на запад. Однако доктор Тадокоро, который возглавляет группу по исследованию океана, вычисляет, что это произойдёт через 338,58 дней. Он показывает результаты своих исследований Премьер-министру и другим. Правительство ему не верит. В то время как на территории Японии начинаются разрушительные землетрясения и извержения вулканов, в точности, как и предсказывал Тадокоро.

Chibi Maruko-chan (Japanese: ちびまる子ちゃん?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Momoko Sakura. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of Momoko Sakura in the times of when she was a little girl where everyone call her Maruko and her family in suburban Japan in the year 1974. The series is set in the former city of Shimizu, now part of Shizuoka City, birthplace of its author.

When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to marry Emi. One day though, Tetsuya hears about Don (Edison Chen). Tetsuya remembers the times he spent with Emi and Don as a child and also feels insecure about Don.

Последние дни Второй Мировой войны. Американская авиация бомбит беззащитные японские города. В водоворот людского каждодневного кошмара попадают 14-летний Сэйта и его сестренка Сэцуко. Понеся самую горькую утрату — потерю близких, они остались совсем одни. Юный мальчик в одночасье становится взрослым, столкнувшись с жестокостью мира. Он осознаёт, что от него зависит жизнь его маленькой сестры. Укрывшись в заброшенном убежище, Сэйта и Сэцуко пытаются выжить, положившись только на свои силы. И пусть в глазах смертоносный огонь в небе — всего лишь огоньки светлячков, жестокая война не щадит даже невинные детские души, вынося им свой беспощадный приговор…

Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out something close to insanity. A high-profile murder propels him into a psychological odyssey in pursuit of Picasso - a serial killer, snuff peddler and fellow synesthete - who leaves deadly hidden messages in his victims' blood that only Shin can decipher. Lulling his victims into a trance with a spellbinding video game, Picasso leads Shin down a mysterious, hypnotic trail of death.

Момоко спасется от провинциальной скуки, наряжаясь в розовые кукольные платьица. Однажды она встречает свою диаметральную противоположность — Итиго, разбитную деваху, красящую губы черной помадой и разъезжающую на мотоцикле. Несмотря на различия в характере, девочки становятся подругами. Момоко утешает Итиго, страдающую от любви к местному щеголю, и, будучи искусной вышивальщицей, украшает её рокерский наряд. В благодарность Итиго отводит подругу в бутик, где она сможет поработать у своего любимого дизайнера. Однако прежним дружкам Итиго не по душе её дружба с Момоко, назревает конфликт, сулящий большие неприятности.