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Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
Japanese Special - 2024, 1 episodes7.7
A documentary that chronicles the making of The Boy and the Heron, filmed with exclusive access to Studio Ghibli across an astonishing seven years. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Release dates: May 9, 2024 (TV) || May 19, 2024…
Mario
Japanese Special - 2018, 1 episodes7.7
It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't be able to recover his consciousness, a scientist decides to implant…
Futarikko
Japanese Drama - 1996, 150 episodes7.7
The 55th NHK Asadora Drama is Futarikko. Born over a tofu shop in Osaka, twin sisters Reiko and Kyoko have very different characters. Reiko is diligent, and longs for a secure, middle class lifestyle. Kyoko is a free…
Tenchijin
Japanese Drama - 2009, 47 episodes7.7
The 48th NHK Taiga drama is Tenchijin. The story centers on Naoe Kanetsugu, a loyal and devoted samurai in Echigo Province in the 16th century. Kanetsugu was trained in his early childhood by Uesugi Kenshin and after…
Ooku
Japanese Drama - 2023, 10 episodes7.7
In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years after the…
Yoshitsune
Japanese Drama - 2005, 49 episodes7.7
The 44th NHK Taiga Drama is about the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo. His…
Kaidan Botan Doro: Beauty & Fear
Japanese Drama - 2019, 4 episodes7.7
The ghost of Otsuyu, a beautiful lady who died pining for love, visits her beloved Hagiwara Shinzaburo every night. The personalities and desires of Otsuyu's father Iijima Heizaemon the loyal Kurokawa Kosuke who serves…
Agri
Japanese Drama - 1997, 156 episodes7.7
It chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by…
Scarlet
Japanese Drama - 2019, 150 episodes7.7
Born in Osaka in 1937, Kawahara Kimiko is the eldest of 3 sisters. At age nine, she and her family moved Shigaraki in Shiga Prefecture. Growing up surrounded by local Shigaraki pottery, she decided to become a ceramics…
Tsuma wa Kunoichi Season 2 - Saishusho
Japanese Drama - 2014, 5 episodes7.7
After having been reunited briefly with his wife, Orie, Hikoma is desperately trying to locate his wife's whereabouts prior to his departure. Missing her husband, Orie decides to retire as a ninja.
Hamura Akira - Sekai de Mottomo Fuunna Tantei
Japanese Drama - 2020, 7 episodes7.7
Akira Hamura likes mystery books. She is 34-years-old, single and works part-time at the Murder Bear Bookshop. She also works as a private investigator. While working on cases, she experiences unlucky and unexpected…
LIQUID - Oni no Sake, Kiseki no Kura
Japanese Drama - 2015, 3 episodes7.7
A long-standing sake brewery in Kanazawa is in crisis. Sagara Shuichi, an elite banker, quits his job to save the family business and turns to legendary but harsh master brewer Washio Yusaku. Despite Yusaku’s uncompromising…
Banjou no Alpha
Japanese Drama - 2019, 4 episodes7.7
Newspaper journalist Akiba Shunsuke is transferred to the cultural desk and put in charge of shogi. He meets Sanada Nobushige, a 33-year-old aiming to be a professional shogi player by achieving the rank of 4-dan or…
Hanekonma
Japanese Drama - 1986, 156 episodes7.7
Tachibana Rin, nicknamed Hanekonma (lit. tomboy in Fukushima dialect), grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Rin and her mother Yae worked hard to earn money in order for her to enter a prestigious all-women's school in Sendai,…
Mikazuki: Crescent Moon
Japanese Drama - 2019, 5 episodes7.6
Oshima Goro, a janitor of an elementary school, becomes a gifted teacher who teaches children that have fallen behind even though he has no licence. Single mother Akasaka Chiaki opposes formal education in schools during…
Youkame no Semi
Japanese Drama - 2010, 6 episodes7.6
Kiwako Nonomiya is heartbroken after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into having an abortion with promises of marriage, only to refuse to divorce his wife. She later…
Churasan Season 3
Japanese Drama - 2004, 5 episodes7.6
Eri could not understand what Keitatsu was thinking when he disappeared before his wife Shoko gave birth. Fumiya becomes unusually harsh when talking to Eri. Mihoko who is seriously ill asks Eri if there's a good place…
Kiriko's Crime Diary
Japanese Drama - 2022, 5 episodes7.6
Hitotsubashi Kiriko is sinking into a pit of sorrow when her one and only best friend, with whom she lived for three years, dies of illness. Living on a pension and working part-time is not easy, and the thought of having…
Boku no Tsuma to Kekkon Shite Kudasai
Japanese Drama - 2015, 6 episodes7.6
45-year-old Mimura Shuji is a man who loves making people laugh more than anything else. A staff of a TV station, he has lived a life dedicated to directing variety programmes. He was recently transferred from programme…
