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“Kutabare” Bocchan

9.0

27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the first time in 10 years after working in Tokyo. As the grandson of the bad guy “Red Shirt” who was punished by Bocchan…

The Phone of the Wind: Whispers to Lost Families

9.0

In a Japanese town devastated by the tsunami of March 2011 stands a booth containing an unconnected telephone. It's known as the Phone of the Wind. People come to "call" their loved ones who died in the disaster. Five…

Tachibana Noboru Seishun Tebikae

7.5

Tachibana Noboru, a 20-year-old aspiring doctor, lives for tomorrow. Leaving Dewa Province (present day Akita), he turns to an uncle Komaki Genan, who is a town doctor in Edo and gets a job as a doctor of Kodenmacho…

Saigo no Okurimono

5.1

Fujiki Sana, a programmer at network game company Neo Genesis, has been researching a “virtual human nurturing game” using artificial intelligence. A simulated foetus created by CG is sleeping in the screen that…

NHK One Point Korean Lesson

6.0

Asa ga Kita Spin Off: Warenabe ni Tojibuta

7.7

Asa ga Kita Special Spin-off - Warenabe ni Tojibuta. The main character is Kisuke.

Botanical Life of Verandar Season 3

6.0

A middle-aged divorced man enjoys a peaceful life in the city. His hobby and passion are growing plants on his balcony.

Hikoukigumo

8.0

In the late 1980s during Japan’s bubble boom, the Gender Equality in Employment Act went into effect and it was a turning point in the way of life of Japanese women. University student Yamada Maruko (Hirose Alice)…

Iya na Onna

6.4

Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called…

Cross Road

8.0

The story revolves around two men in a long hostile relationship: police officer Ozeki Tatsuro and journalist Itagaki Kohei. 25 years ago, Itagaki wrote an article about Ozeki's investigation of a case, and consequently,…

Kaitei no Kimi e

6.7

29-year-old Maehara Shigeo protects a teenage boy Tezuka Shun who has been forced to shoplift and encounters Shun’s elder sister Maho. The parents of Maho and Shun are on an overseas assignment and the two siblings…

Indigo no Koibito

6.8

Kurashiki City in Okayama Prefecture is famous worldwide for Okayama Denim. Harada Kenji works as a denim craftsman in the city. He distresses and dyes blue denim at a factory in Kojima district every day. Kenji gave…

Ooka Echizen Season 3

8.0

The reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune was notable for the “Ooka Sabaki” which supported the Kyoho Reforms advanced by Yoshimune. Ooka Echizen, an Edo magistrate, punished evil that brought suffering to…

Chikaemon

6.9

Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink.…

Ito Oshikute

7.2

Konatsu has lost love. She was abandoned by her father who had a mistress; her mother died of illness; and her boyfriend cheated on her. The traditional tie-dying craft Arimatsu Shibori is all she lives for. Konatsu…

Jungle Fever

5.8

In the year 2065, when Haraguchi Saori (Goriki Ayame) wakes up from a deep slumber, she is inside a spaceship. Six other people awaken in the same way. The seven of them watch a video set to auto play on a monitor. They…

Edogawa Ranpo Short Stories I: 1925-nen no Akechi Kogoro

7.5

Three classics from Edogawa Rampo's golden era of short stories come to life in this drama series special. Witness Akechi Kogoro's humble beginnings in the 'The Case of the Murder on D. Hill,' his dramatic exposure of…

1964 kara 2020 e: Zanpai kara Tachiagare

Yoshiwara Uradoshin

7.5

Bodyguard Kamimori Mikijiro and his wife Teijo welcome their third New year at Edo’s largest pleasure quarters, the Yoshiwara red light district. On the second day of work of the New Year, an unprecedented disappearance…

Botanical Life of Verandar: Ore no Winter Special

6.0