No Time for Tears

5.0

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relationship with the coach's daughter Michiko, Shimamura becomes angry with…

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

7.4

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly…

One Year to Live, Buy a Man

"Saving money is the best entertainment and the perfect way to kill time." So said Katakura Yui, a 40-year-old single woman. She has deliberately avoided anything she deems to be uneconomical, including romance, marriage,…

The Man Who Confided Too Much in AI

Anai Ryosuke, who is set to be married the next day, appears to have a smooth and successful life. However, beneath the surface, he is tormented by feelings of inferiority and uncertainty toward his fiancée, Megumi.…

Jungle

7.5

This special episode is a spin-off of Galileo series with Kusanagi's colleague Yuge Shiro as the main character.

The Gun Like Lightning

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart,…

Brain Man

8.0

In a small town in Japan, a series of seemingly random explosion cases occur. Ichiro Suzuki knowns as "Brain Man" is fingered as an accomplice. Midorikawa works on the explosion case. The mysterious man known as "Brain…

A Man

7.8

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with Rie, who is his ex-client. She asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. After Rie got a divorce, she raised her child alone and returned…

Tora-san 15: Rise and Fall

7.7

Tora-san meets the weird and lonely Hyodo in the Northeast. Hyodo is determined to leave his home in Tokyo and goes back to Hokkaido to find his true love that he has not seen for 30 years. Tora-san accompanies him…

Kodaka Masaru

Kodaka Masaru is a former actor and child actor from Koishikawa-ku, Tokyo. He joined Shinko Kinema in 1937 and debuted with "Otoko Narya koso." In 1938, he transferred to Toho. In 1944, after transferring to Shochiku, he entered the School of Political Science and Economics at Hosei University but dropped…

Hosogai Kei

Hosogai Kei is a Japanese actor and musician. Born in Tokyo, he lived in the United States from ages 6–9 and 11-23, so he's fluent in English. He was the bassist of the now disbanded J-rock band Cocoa Otoko. His most notable roles are Hiyoshi Wakashi in The Prince of Tennis musicals, Basco ta Jokolia…

Kayama Yuzo

Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Hayami Mokomichi

Hayami Mokomichi is a Japanese actor and model born in Shibuya to a Japanese father and Japanese-Filipino mother. He debuted in 2002 with the TV drama "You're Under Arrest", and came to fame with his 2005 role in Gokusen 2. He is also known for his supporting roles in dramas such as Densha Otoko, 5-Ji…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Sugisaku Jitaro

Sugisaku Jitaro is a Japanese manga artist, actor, entertainer, musician, writer, and film director born in Iyo, Ehime, Japan. He is the founder of Lobo no Hakaba Production. He left Aiko Junior High School but later graduated from Komazawa University. During university, he pursued comedy and formed…

Kobori Akio

Kobori Akio is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He dropped out of school in 1930 and studied under Inoue Masao to become an actor. He joined the Yokosuka Heavy Gun Regiment in 1941. In the same year, he married Kobori Yoneko. He returned in December 1945 and was scouted for Toyoko Eiga in July 1947, and…

Yamada Takayuki

Yamada Takayuki is a Japanese actor, singer, and producer in Japan. At the age of 15, he was discovered by his Talent Agency Stardust and made his debut in Psychometrer Eiji 2. His subsequent portrayal as the "cool" younger brother of the heroine in the hit NHK Asadora Drama Churasan won him wide recognition.…

Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…