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Futarikko

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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…

Ooku

7.7

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…

Tenchijin

7.7

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…

Yoshitsune

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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…

Hamura Akira - Sekai de Mottomo Fuunna Tantei

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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…

Agri

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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…

Kaidan Botan Doro: Beauty & Fear

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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…

Tsuma wa Kunoichi Season 2 - Saishusho

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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.

LIQUID - Oni no Sake, Kiseki no Kura

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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…

Shiroi Dakuryu

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Kazuki Yoshinami is a pharmaceutical researcher at a university. His friend Wataru Kashiwagi is also a pharmaceutical researcher at the same university. They are rivals, but talk to each other about their dreams. One…

Scarlet

7.7

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…

Banjou no Alpha

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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

7.6

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,…

Yappari Oshii Keiji

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Mikazuki: Crescent Moon

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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

7.6

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…

Kiriko's Crime Diary

7.6

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

7.6

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…

Yuganda Hamon

7.6

Sawamura Masahiko is a reporter with a local newspaper, Shin Kanagawa Nippo. One day, he gets a scoop on a hit-and-run case. Morimoto Atsukoa, the grieving wife of the man who died, is reportedly the culprit. Masahiko…

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While the public relations office of D Prefectural Police is having a confrontation with the correspondents’ club, over the issue of the anonymity of perpetrators, it is decided that a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department…